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| Author(s): |
Luis Fernando Tosta Barbato
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2015-09-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Edgar Salvadori De Decca;
Eliane Moura Silva;
Denise Scandarolli Inacio;
Márcia Naxara;
Janaina Zito Losada
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| Advisor: | Edgar Salvadori De Decca |
| Abstract | |
This study aims to understand how the nineteenth-century Brazil was portrayed in the pages of the Revue des Deux Mondes, an important French journal of the nineteenth century, mainly seeking the representations associated with its tropical country condition. Through this study, we can understand how Brazil, a distinct country in Europe because of its tropicality, was seen through the eyes of the French travelers of the time, coming from a place regarded as a great diffuser of civilization in the nineteenth century. We can also analyze how the differences that they found here, present in its climate, nature and population, were portrayed and helped to reiterate the position of Brazil as a nation still on the margins of civilization, mainly due to its problems and its natural and social conditions. In addition, we can see in this work how the images of Brazil in Revue des Deux Mondes were important for the construction of a self-image of the country, present in the ideals that shaped the Brazilian national identity (AU) | |