Caramuru is an epic poem

Epic poetry

An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, and Albert Lord and Milman Parry have argued that classical epics were fundamentally an oral poetic form...

 written by Brazil

Brazil

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ian Augustinian

Augustinians

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 friar Santa Rita Durão

Santa Rita Durão

José de Santa Rita Durão was a Colonial Brazilian Neoclassic poet, orator and Augustinian friar. He is considered a forerunner of the "Indianism" in the literature of Brazil, with his epic poem Caramuru....

. It was published in 1781

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, and it is one of the most famous Indianist works of the Brazilian Neoclassicism — the other being Basílio da Gama

Basílio da Gama

José Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...

's O Uraguai

O Uraguai

"O Uraguai" is an epic poem by the Brazilian writer Basílio da Gama. This poem is a noted example of the Arcadianism and Indianism in Brazilian Literature...

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Inspired by Luís de Camões

Luís de Camões

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' The Lusiads, it is divided in ten cantos. The poem tells the story of the famous Portuguese

Portuguese people

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 sailor Diogo Álvares Correia

Caramuru

Diogo Álvares Correia , called Caramuru by the Tupinambá, was a Portuguese settler born in Viana do Castelo. He departed for Brazil in 1509, and his ship wrecked in the coast of Bahia, Diogo Álvares found himself among the Tupinamba Indians...

, known as "Caramuru" (Tupi

Old Tupi language

Old Tupi or Classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who lived close to the sea. It belongs to the Tupi–Guarani language family, and which has a written history spanning the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries...

 for "Son of the Thunder"), who shipwrecked on the shores of what is today the State of Bahia

Bahia

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 and had to live among the Indians. The poem also alludes to Correia's wife, Catarina Paraguaçu

Catarina Paraguaçu

Catarina Álvares Paraguaçu, also known as Catarina do Brasil , was a Brazilian Tupinambá Indian. She was born in what is today the State of Bahia , and was married to Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia, known as "Caramuru"...

, as being able to foresee the Dutch invasions of Brazil

Dutch Brazil

Dutch Brazil, also known as New Holland, was the northern portion of Brazil, ruled by the Dutch during the Dutch colonization of the Americas between 1630 and 1654...

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Adaptations

• Caramuru: A Invenção do Brasil, a 2001
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   directed by Guel Arraes, is a loose, comedic adaptation of Durão's poem.

See also

• Indianism
• Basílio da Gama
  Basílio da Gama
  José Basílio da Gama was a Brazilian-born Portuguese poet and member of the Society of Jesus, famous for the epic poem O Uraguai...
  
  
• O Uraguai
  O Uraguai
  "O Uraguai" is an epic poem by the Brazilian writer Basílio da Gama. This poem is a noted example of the Arcadianism and Indianism in Brazilian Literature...
  
  
• Caramuru
  Caramuru
  Diogo Álvares Correia , called Caramuru by the Tupinambá, was a Portuguese settler born in Viana do Castelo. He departed for Brazil in 1509, and his ship wrecked in the coast of Bahia, Diogo Álvares found himself among the Tupinamba Indians...