Viajante e nação : as versões da narrativa de viagem de Hercules Florence e o Projeto Nacional (1824-1876)

Abstract

The present dissertation studies, parallelly, two of narrative versions of Hercule Florence’s trip. Considering there are three versions of the narrative, and in the impossibility of contact with the first, we treat specifically, with the second one and the third one, both, translated and published in Portuguese Language. The study covers the traveler very early contacts with Brasil, so the definition of the starting point as 1824, and the problematic that surround the publication of the last narrative version, therefore the definition of a limit date as 1876. The analysis is realized through the comparison between the two narratives with the issue to percept the variations of rating, emphasis and treatment, in relation to some themes, as indigenous, slavery or monarchy. To comprehend the historic sense of these variations we related aspects of the author biography with the cultural and institutional environment of publication and writing. Concluding the perception, how some opinions variations in the narrative doesn’t have explanations by the biography data, but before, the text edition attunes it in discussion and perspectives of the national project. A discussion that has as one of its announcers the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute, whose Magazine edited and published the third narrative version of Hercules Florence, in 1876. But, not only this, the own publication is a clue of a close relation between Hercule Florence and the problems of national characterizing of Brasil in the Eighth-hundred century.