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  • Chapter 2 - Defining Portuguese America: The First Depictions of Brazil Within the Context of Overseas Expansion

  • from Part I - Land, Space, Territory
  • Edited by Rocío Quispe-Agnoli, Michigan State University, Amber Brian, University of Iowa
  • Book:
    Latin American Literature in Transition Pre-1492–1800
    Published online:
    25 November 2022
    Print publication:
    08 December 2022, pp 34-47

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the Portuguese representations of space during its expansion in Atlantic South America. It focuses on the act of naming places and people and the political and missionary appropriation of the land and its native inhabitants. It analyzes three genres of early colonial historiography: (a) accounts of discovery like Vaz de Caminha’s Carta a dom Manuel I (1500), the anonymous pilot’s Relacão, and Mestre João’s Carta; (b) chronicles and histories such asMagalhães Gândavo’s Historia da provincia de Santa Cruz a que vulgarmente chamamos Brasil (1576); Cardim’s Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil (1583-1601), and Soares de Sousa’s Tratado descritivo do Brasil em 1587; and Jesuit missionary letterswritten by Nóbrega (1517-1570), Azpilcueta Navarro (1522-1557) and Anchieta (1534-1597).

    While western ways of thinking the world activate the production of these texts, this essay contends that the identities given to places and people are not one-sided European given the movement, displacement, and transformation that the Portuguese explorers, colonizers and missionaries experienced in the Americas.