Abstract

FRANCA, Jean Marcel Carvalho. Images of Brazil from travel narratives in the 17^th and 18^th centuries. Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 2000, n.15, pp.07-15. ISSN 1413-2478.

This essay aims to analyze a series of descriptions from colonial Rio de Janeiro, extracted from travel narratives written by European travelers that passed by this city between the 17^th and the 18^th centuries. Besides giving the perspective which these visitors left about the city and its inhabitants, this essay brings into discussion the role that the travel reports performed in the construction of the image that the Europeans had about the Brazilians back then and, most of all, the role that they performed afterwards in the construction process of the image that the Brazilians, from the 19^th century on, had about themselves and about their countries.

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