Literary practices of representation of the other: Antônio Vieira and the "indigenous before indianism"

Abstract

This article intends to reflect about how the image of the indigenous people is represented in Antonio Vieira’s sermons, by associating important issues of the scholastic thought with the interests of the Jesuit order. More specifically, the paper will focus on the missionaries’ vision about the alterity of the New World, highlighting, in turn, Antonio Vieira’s pragmatic point of view regarding the recently discovered nations in the sixteenth century.

Keywords:
Antonio Vieira; Otherness; Indigenous