%0 Journal Article
%T In a world without faith and dominated by ambition: Representations of Brazil and the Portuguese in the First Half of the Eighteen Century European Travel Literature
%A Domingues
%A £¿ngela
%J Culture & History Digital Journal
%D 2012
%I Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas
%R 10.3989/chdj.2012.m104
%X As part of a reflection on Atlantic history, I intend to reread the travel literature written by Europeans who stayed briefly at the Brazilian shore, so as to learn about the Portuguese empire -and particularly Brazil- from the inside and understand how the Portuguese and Luso-Brazilians of the colony were perceived. Travelers registered their impressions based on their own principles, and in some cases exaggerated the cultural differences they observed. This rereading makes it possible to evaluate the differences between a Europe constituted by nations, kingdoms and empires, and Mediterranean Europe. The travel literature, which did not have Brazil as final destination, could have disproportionate and unsuspected repercussions. The accounts showed Portugal and its colonies as similar to Spain and very different from the rest of Europe, at a period of affirmation of the national States and aggressive imperial external policies aimed at the South Atlantic. Desde una reflexi¨®n en torno a la historia atl¨¢ntica, pretendo releer la literatura de viajes escrita por europeos que permanecieron brevemente en el litoral brasile o, para as¨ª conocer el Imperio Portugu¨¦s -y muy particularmente Brasil- desde adentro y comprender c¨®mo eran percibidos los portugueses y luso-brasile os de la colonia. Los viajeros registraban sus impresiones a partir de sus propios principios, exagerando en algunos casos las diferencias culturales observadas. Esta relectura permite evaluar las diferencias entre una Europa constituida por naciones, reinos e imperios; y la Europa Mediterr¨¢nea. La literatura de viajes, cuyo destino final no era Brasil, pod¨ªa tener repercusiones desproporcionadas e insospechadas. Los relatos mostraban a Portugal y sus colonias similar a Espa a y muy diferente del resto de Europa, en un per¨ªodo de afirmaci¨®n de los estados nacionales y agresivas pol¨ªticas externas imperialista que apuntaban al Atl¨¢ntico Sur.
%K Colonial Brazil
%K circumnavigation
%K travel literature
%K European empires
%K identities
%K Brasil colonial
%K viajes de circunnavegaci¨®n
%K literatura de viajes
%K imperios europeos
%K identidades
%U http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/14/60