A arquitetura da alteridade : a cidade luso-brasileira na literatura de viagem : (1783-1845) / Architecture of alterity : the luzo-brazilian city on travel literature : (1783-1845)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The goal of my work is to provide a review of images of the Luso-Brazilian cities that were often incorporated by historiography in the narratives of French and British authors. From the travel literature genre, I investigate ways to understand how conceptual images about the Brazilian cities and the urban space for the period of 1783 through 1844 serve as a mirror of the differences between the “civilized” and “refined” Europe and the territories of Portuguese administration or origin, which were considered as decadents and “barbarians” during the period of surpass of colonial ties and the creation of the Brazilian National State. Rather than to reconstruct a supposed “reality” of the cities or how they were when visited by the travelers of the period, my objective is to verify how rhetorical questions of style and previous theories as represented by the contents brought within the traveler’s luggage affect the description of the experiences of the tangible world.

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historiografia travel in literature literature and history cidades e vilas na literatura alteridade alterity literatura e historia cities and towns in literature historiography viagem na literatura

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