O mundo natural e o erotismo das gentes no Brasil Colônia: a perspectiva do estrangeiro

  • França J
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O ensaio aborda a literatura de viagem sobre o Brasil, escrita ao longo dos séculos XVI, XVII e XVIII, com o intuito de extrair daí uma pequena amostra da imagem que o europeu construiu do mundo natural e de um dos aspectos da conduta moral das gentes dos trópicos portugueses, aquele ligado à vida erótica do brasileiro, à sua relação com os prazeres da carne. Trata, pois, de uma tentativa muita limitada de mapear uma pequena parte das verdades sobre o Brasil e suas gentes que o europeu construiu e partilhou ao longo dos séculos, verdades que, em larga medida, guiaram as suas ações nesta parte do globo.This essay focuses on travel literature about Brazil, written during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with the intention of drawing from this small sample, an image that was built of nature and the moral conduct of the people in the tropics - specially the erotic life of Brazilians and its relationship with the pleasures of the flesh. It is therefore a very limited attempt to map a small part of the truths about Brazil and its people that the Europeans had shared and built over the centuries, truths that largely had guided their actions in that part of the globe.

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França, J. M. C. (2010). O mundo natural e o erotismo das gentes no Brasil Colônia: a perspectiva do estrangeiro. Topoi (Rio de Janeiro), 11(20), 15–26. https://doi.org/10.1590/2237-101x011020002

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