Entre "rios": espaço, viagem e identidade em imagens do Brasil

Abstract

This article purposes a study concerning the relationship between space, travel and identity in Imagens do Brasil, written by the German Brazilian journalist and congressman Karl von Koseritz. Composed by 94 travel reports written between 04/14/1883 and 11/11/1883, the book presentes a narrative about the departure of Rio Grande do Sul towards Rio de Janeiro, discurring mostly about the author´s experience in the capital. This paper tries to analyze the ways Koseritz representes himself through the Rio de Janeiro' s daily life narration. Thus stand out the comparisons stablished by the traveler between their homelands (Germany, where he was born, and Brazil, where he was naturalized) between the "rios" [rivers] pictured (Rio de Janeiro x Rio Grande do Sul) , comparing them in geographical and in temporal scope (past x present). Therefore I use the Ottmar Ette´s mapping about the travel´s report places and his concept of friction in order to explore how this traveler- narrator develops his identity in the oscillation between narrator and narrative´s matter´s roles he performs.