D. Narcisa de Villar

{{Short description|1859 novel}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}{{Infobox book

| name = D. Narcisa de Villar

| image = D. Narcisa de Villar de Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro.jpg

| author = Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro

| language = Portuguese

| country = Brazil

| genre = Indianist romance

| published = 1859

| publisher = Tipografia de Francisco de Paula Brito

| isbn = 9788586501210

| isbn_note = (5th edition)

| oclc = 8106607279

| congress = PQ9697.A1 D6

}}

{{Language with name/for|pt|D. Narcisa de Villar: Legenda do tempo colonial|Mrs. Narcisa de Villar: A Story of Colonial Times}} is a novel by {{Interlanguage link|Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro|lt=|pt|Ana Luísa de Azevedo Castro|WD=}}, first published as a book in 1859. Castro published it pseudonymously as {{Language with name/for|pt|Indígena do Ipiranga|Ipirangan Indigenous Person}}.{{Cite book|last1=Mota|first1=Isabela|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jg3YDwAAQBAJ|title=Vestígios da Paisagem Carioca: 50 lugares desaparecidos do Rio de Janeiro|last2=Pamplona|first2=Patricia|date=2020-03-20|publisher=Mauad Editora|isbn=978-85-304-0029-3|pages=154|language=pt}} Before its release as a novel, the work was serialized in A marmota, a newspaper published in the state of Rio de Janeiro.{{Sfn|Wasserman|2007|pp=22–23}}

The novel concerns the star-crossed romance between a Portuguese girl and Indigenous boy in colonial Brazil.{{Sfn|Wasserman|2007|pp=|p=23}} Matthews describes the work as Indianist;{{Cite book|last=Matthews|first=Charlotte Hammond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nl9p8SOH9gC|title=Gender, Race, and Patriotism in the Works of Nísia Floresta|date=2012|publisher=Tamesis Books|isbn=978-1-85566-235-3|pages=91|language=en}} Andreta and Alós note, similarly, that the work evinces a preference for the Indigenous peoples in Brazil over conquistadors.{{Sfn|Andreta|Alós|2014|p=102}} De Alencar argues that it represents a precursor to modernism in Brazilian literature.{{Sfn|de Alencar|2008|p=65}} Wasserman compares it to the French novels Paul et Virginie (1788) and Atala (1801), as well as to the works of Brazilian writer José de Alencar such as O Guarani (1857)—although she notes that, unlike O Guarani, D. Narcisa de Villar does not "complicate moral matters" by describing Indigenous people in negative terms or Portuguese colonialists in positive terms.{{Sfn|Wasserman|2007|pp=|p=23}}