Cannibalizing the Colony: Cinematic Adaptations of Colonial Literature in Mexico and Brazil

Contents

Contents ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 19 Chapter One Re-creating caminha: the earnest adaptation of brazil’s letter of Discovery in Descobrimento do Brazil (1937) 47 Chapter Two exoticizing the nation in Cabeza de Vaca (1991) and Como era gostoso o meu francês (1971) 79 Chapter Three Reimagining guadalupe in Nuevo mundo (1976) and La otra conquista (1998) 109 Chapter Four Sor Juana inés de la cruz and the Retooling of a national icon in Ave María (1999) 141 Chapter Five inverted captivities and imagined adaptations in Brava Gente Brasileira (2000) and Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil (2001) 177 Epilogue the Unwieldy Dynamics of anthropophagous adaptations 181 Appendix english translations 197 Notes 235 Works Cited 253 Index vii ...