O olhar do outro: narrativas de estrangeiros sobre Porto Alegre

Abstract

The paper aims to interpret the various references and narratives of travelers about the city of Porto Alegre, from its foundation to the present day. The travelers and visitors who were there and still return to the city contribute, with their impressions, to the construction of an image and memory of the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, as it is through the perspective of strangeness that they see “another city”. The approach methodology is based on the analysis of clippings from travelers 'chronicles, iconographies, images and texts from visitors' postcards. The intention is to elaborate a series of representations and speeches that we call ‘the other one glance’ about Porto Alegre. As a theoretical basis, we used the production of studies of urban memory by Eduardo d’Oliveira França, the concept of memory in Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Assmann and the work of Roger Chartier, among others. The news brought to this paper is the combining used sources of text and images to build the memory of the city.