Banca de DEFESA: LEANDRO ROSA DA SILVA

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STUDENT : LEANDRO ROSA DA SILVA
DATE: 27/10/2020
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

 Exploration and Domain Images. Representations of Africa and Africans through the views of Zurara and Pacheco Pereira (15th century).

KEY WORDS:

Africa; African; Portuguese; otherness; representations.

PAGES: 209
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História Antiga e Medieval
SUMMARY:

It is a discussion about the narratives created as an instrument of power. Those speeches that constructed images about the ‘other’ and its territories to justify exploration and Lusitanian dominance over the west coast of Africa in the 15th century. To this end, the continuities and discontinuities in the inheritances of the medieval imagination about Africa and Africans will be discussed through the accounts of Gomes Eanes de Zurara and Duarte Pacheco Pereira. It will be highlighted those representations that positioned the pre-conceived territorial and cultural references of the Portuguese in perspectives of otherness with the looks directed to the sub-Saharan peoples and territories. Especially, in the region that was known for Guinea during the fourteenth century navigations. Thus, the present work also seeks to expand knowledge about the Portuguese maritime expansion, as well as the relationships of otherness and identity that occurred in the first contacts of that period.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - CLAUDIA CRISTINA AZEREDO ATALLAH - UFF
Externo à Instituição - JOSE JORGE SIQUEIRA - UFMA
Externa à Instituição - DANIELI MACHADO BEZERRA - UFF
Presidente - 1168132 - JOSE COSTA D ASSUNCAO BARROS
Interno - 1581640 - MARCELO SANTIAGO BERRIEL