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Chactas

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Chactas
the “noble savage” of the Natchez Indians; beloved of Atala. [Fr. Lit.: Atala]
See : Noble Savage
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In Chateaubriand's equally abstemious Atala (1801), because of a vow her mother made that Atala would consecrate herself to God and surrender her virginity only at the peril of her mother's eternal soul, the eponymous heroine, daughter of a Spanish conquistador and a Christianized Indian mother, commits suicide rather than lose her virginity to the man she loves, Chactas, a young Indian from another tribe brought up and 'civilized', coincidentally, by her estranged father.
Carlos Gomes' Il Guarany: the Frontiers of Miscegenation in ... by Andrews, Jean / Portuguese Studies
 
 
 
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