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| Author(s): |
Débora Villela de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-08-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Mary Anne Junqueira;
Gabriela Pellegrino Soares;
Antonio Pedro Tota
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| Advisor: | Mary Anne Junqueira |
| Abstract | |
The research analyses the book Brazil and The Brazilians portrayed in historical and descriptive sketches, written by James Cooley Fletcher who had contact with the Emperor D. Pedro II and several politicians of the Brazilian Empire and Daniel Parish Kidder, first published in 1857, at Philadelphia, United States. The book had been a great success, receiving other eight editions in the nineteenth century. Its Portuguese translation was published in 1941. The analysis seeks the comprehension about how these authors described the Brazilian Empire in the book by political, social, and economic aspects, under the circumstances of Brazil at that time. Fletcher and Kidder had established connections between Brazil and United States in Brazil and The 6 Brazilians in order to alleviate most negative images of other publications that circulated about Brazil at that time in United States, arguing with other authors about those aspects. Even that Kidder and Fletcher tried not to affirm these disparities, they noticed distances in the levels of civilization of the two countries, mentioning that Brazil was a growing nation, imbued with perspectives of progress and development; even though, it was recognized by them that Brazil wasn´t in the same level of development of United States. So, even with the established connections, Kidder and Fletcher still reproduced some of the aspects of an Imperial Culture presented at that time, by pointing up the United States as the most emergent and promising leader country of Western. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/14137-0 - The stable and constitutional monarchy in the tropics: images of Brazil in the United States in the book Brazil and the Brazilians - and descriptivist portrayed in historical sketches of Kidder and Fletcher |
| Grantee: | Débora Villela de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |