O oriente de Os Lusiádas, de Camões: representação épica e discurso do gênero

Abstract

Literary work represents cultural geographies and landscapes of other places, strange to its own reality and context, in a rhetorical, imaginary and symbolic way. The ideological foundations of that representation, which are of a political and cultural order, are consubstantiated by means of formal and expressive techniques that constitute esthetic treatment. Based on these premises, the article proposes to examine The Lusiads (1572) of Luís Vaz de Camões as a work bound to marks of the Western ethno-culturalandrocentric complex, which can be examined under the lenses of its discourse of gender, and which is ideological and politically informed.