Abstract
The novel O som do rugido da onça (2021), written by Micheliny Verunschk, reclaims the expropriating fatalism of our historical past through the journey made by a zoologist named Spix and a botanist named Martius to Brazil to “conduct scientific research for the sake of science and humanity”. However, the novel essentially refers to the two indigenous children who, having survived the sea voyage, docked with the scientists in Munich. In poetic prose, the narrative responds to the need to recreate the inner world of its characters, the Miranha girl Iñe-e and the boy Juri, who have been condemned to muteness by exile. Thus, the narrative presents itself as a creative bricolage or, according to its author, as a “transcreation” of “myths” which are mainly marked by an imaginary whose characteristics may be defined by the notion of “Amerindian perspectivism”.
Keywords:
jaguar; Amerindian perspectivism; colonization; predation