História do Brasil para o "belo sexo": apropriações do olhar estrangeiro para leitoras do século XIX

Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze diverse perspectives of Brazil and its history, produced and appropriated in three historiographic works printed in the first half of the nineteenth century. Woman's Mentor). The analysis of these works allows us to examine the translation and adaptation of these texts, as well the authors' transformation of support materialities. The Brazilian version, aimed at female readers, has as a result shorter texts, with some subjects, such as Indian cannibalism and polygamy and the Portuguese conquests of sixteenth century, being left out. This indicates the adequacy of the newspaper to its readers and its engagement in a wider political project aimed at affirming Brazil as an independent and civilized nation.