Abstract
In this article, I aim to establish the conditions for the emergence of indigenous literatures in North American, Hispanic American, and Brazilian contexts, from a comparative perspective, identifying colonial interventions in these processes. I use different theoretical approaches, such as those employed by Hunt (2002), Fulford (2006), Del Valle Escandante (2013), Daniel Munduruku (2012), Dorrico et al. (2018), García Canclini (2008), and Viveiros de Castro (2016). The analysis confirms that even when conditioned by Western mechanisms (market, consumer public, etc.), indigenous books tend to not adapt to the mainstream, thus deserving cultural-historical approaches.
Keywords
Indigenous literatures; colonialism; comparative literature