Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/amerika.4428>
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DOI: <
10.4000/amerika.4428>
Abstract
In How Tasty was my little Frenchman, film released in 1970, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, from a colonial historical vision, uses as the basis for the screenplay the report of Hans Staden, but recreates it in a satirical narrative between documentary and fictional. What interests us in this paper is to identify how the film through images and narrative itself, proposes different ways of thinking about indigenous customs, considering not only the practice of Tupinambás’cannibalism, but also the capability of interaction and coexistence of groups indigenous to the "foreign", French and Portuguese. In this sense, we will resort, panoramic way, the literary and pictorial texts to analyze the developments of the theme indianist to check how they are present in the film How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman and reduce the analytical focus to evidence in a specific scene, the playful, metaphorical and theater to present mutual assimilation of indigenous and European culture and how the idea of savagery and citizenship are (re) constructed features.