A AMÉRICA PORTUGUESA NA OBRA DE CHARLES BOXER：NOS MEANDROS DA HISTÓRIA E DA HISTORIOGRAFIA查爾斯‧博克塞著作中的葡屬美洲：在歷史與史學史蜿蜒曲折的路上
The article analyzes how Charles R. Boxer interpreted the Portuguese colonial experience in the Americas, using his historiographical production and the singular position he occupied in the Luso-Brazilian debate of the twentieth century as its central axis. The central thesis maintains that Boxer sh...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2014
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40047/2369 |
| Summary: | The article analyzes how Charles R. Boxer interpreted the Portuguese colonial experience in the Americas, using his historiographical production and the singular position he occupied in the Luso-Brazilian debate of the twentieth century as its central axis. The central thesis maintains that Boxer should not be read as a "Brazilianist," nor as a direct heir of academic traditions that, from the United States or France, set the tone for readings of Brazil and Latin America. Instead, it argues that "Portuguese America" in Boxer results from an investigative agenda configured by other places and by an imperial sensibility shaped from Asia, articulating a multicontinental scale and a comparative focus.
The methodology combines historiographical analysis and interpretive reading of Boxer's work, confronting his presuppositions with earlier British intellectual trajectories (e.g., Robert Southey and Edgar Prestage) and with the inflection of Brazilian thought in the period 1930–1940 (Gilberto Freyre, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, and Caio Prado Júnior). As a result, the article demonstrates that Portuguese America appears within the intricacies of a history of the Empire marked by transoceanic connections and by a gaze that displaces the observer from the Atlantic to the networked Luso world. It concludes that Boxer's contribution resides less in a theory of Brazil and more in a reconfiguration of the intelligibility of the Portuguese Empire through intersecting routes and historiographies. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |