A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道

The article analyzes the *Correspondência Luso-Brasileira* as a narrative of intercultural transit between Portugal and Brazil, focusing on the histories of the Pinto da França and Garcez families, and, in particular, the trajectory of Maria Bárbara Garcez Pinto de Madureira (1779–1851). Based on an...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Clara Sarmento
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau October 2011
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40040/3125
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spelling A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
The article analyzes the *Correspondência Luso-Brasileira* as a narrative of intercultural transit between Portugal and Brazil, focusing on the histories of the Pinto da França and Garcez families, and, in particular, the trajectory of Maria Bárbara Garcez Pinto de Madureira (1779–1851). Based on an epistolary corpus comprising approximately 127 letters (1807–1823), the author argues that Maria Bárbara’s writing functions simultaneously as an instrument of reading, mediation, and political intervention, enabling us to trace the progressive negotiation of a hybrid and assertive identity: from spectator-reader to commentator-actor-protagonist-author. Methodologically, the text proposes a contextual and situated reading of the letters, avoiding a positivist “objectivity,” and mobilizes the concept of intercultural translation formulated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. In this perspective, intercultural comparison demands procedures for seeking proportion and correspondence between cultural, epistemological, and everyday practical differences. As its main conclusions, the article reveals that the epistolary exercise constitutes a continuous work of correspondence between rationalities and worlds, through which it becomes possible to reconfigure belongings, interpret events (including Brazilian independence), and rewrite historical meaning from displaced positions.
Instituto Cultural de Macau
Macau
Review of Culture
Articles
October 2011
Clara Sarmento
spellingShingle A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
Clara Sarmento
title A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
title_autocomplete A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
title_full A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
title_fullStr A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
title_full_unstemmed A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
title_short A CORRESPONDÊNCIA LUSO─BRASILEIRA : NARRATIVA DE UM TRÂNSITO INTERCULTURAL《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
title_sort a correspondência luso─brasileira : narrativa de um trânsito intercultural《葡國-巴西通信》: 文化間的敘述通道
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