Descrição
This article discusses several texts by the Jesuits among the fi rst wave that came to the Luso-American lands beginning in 1549. From the perspective of needing to understand the New World, while at the same time thinking of their own concerns, these Ignatians would produce, in the midst of a fruitful “contact zone", important reflections - which would become true founding literary discourses - about our Brazilian flora and fauna.||This article discusses several texts by the Jesuits among the fi rst wave that came to the Luso-American lands beginning in 1549. From the perspective of needing to understand the New World, while at the same time thinking of their own concerns, these Ignatians would produce, in the midst of a fruitful “contact zone", important reflections - which would become true founding literary discourses - about our Brazilian flora and fauna.||Este artigo pretende discutir alguns textos produzidos por jesuítas presentes entre as primeiras levas que vieram para as terras lusoamericanas a partir de 1549. Sob a perspectiva da necessidade de compreender o Novo Mundo ao mesmo tempo em que pensavam a si próprios, estes inacianos produzirão, em meio a uma profícua “zona de contato”, importantes reflexões – que se transformariam em verdadeiros discursos literários fundadores – acerca de nossa flora e fauna.
