Abstract
The post will introduce iconic Native American characters in a diachronic view of Brazilian literature by five authors: Per Vaz de Caminha, José de Alencar,
By Mário de Andrade, Darcy Ribeira and Milton Hatoum. will describe how the ending Middle Ages treated the literary character of the original inhabitants, romanticism, modernism, postmodernism and the novel of the turn of the millennium.
All the mentioned prose also exist in Czech translation.
We will get away from the mere amazed description of the native of an unknown country to a brave warrior with knightly virtues, so that in the later at times they found the Indian ironic and sarcastic, joking from Brazilian culture full of various influences. In the end with the postcolonial we will return to the original myths and rituals