Notas de um diário de viagem a Minas Gerais: política e ciência na escrita viajante do Imperador D. PedroII(1811)

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Joao Ricardo Ferreira Pires
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Escrita viajante; D Pedro II; Viagem política /administrativa; Pedro II, Imperador do Brasil, 1825-1891; Ciencia Historia; História; Minas Gerais História
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/VGRO-7AYFZ7

This dissertation focuses on two themes predominate in the travel writing of Emperor D. Pedro II during one of his trips to Minas Gerais: politics and science. This trip is analyzed as a strategy of spacial power that seeks to maintain a specific image of the Empire and the Emperor, to counteract the mounting criticism of the imperial government of the period, using the language of science as a political weapon. There were two objectives: to relate and to explain the trip - the motivations, the interlocutors, the program -,and to analyze the travel writing in its central object: The Travel Diary to Minas Gerais.Therefore, D. Pedro II travels two times throughout this dissertation: the first between March and April on the roads of the province and, in the same period, he travels through the pages of his notebook. From these two trips, we raise conclusions regarding imperial politics and the science of the XIX Century, the personality of the Emperor and a certain tradition of travel writing.We start arguing that D. Pedro II was a traveller, recounting a series of trips and, constructing his travelling inheritance - a set of travellers and narratives of trip that, directly or indirectly, had influenced the Emperor. We describe the trip to Minas Gerais and analyses some basic aspects of this trip, for example, its administrative/political characters and the inter-textuality with the work of the naturalist Saint-Hilaire. We explain the nature of the object with which we are dealing, that is, what is a travelling diary, what are its characteristics, what are its formal and historical affiliations. Later, we return to discuss the trip, explaining D. Pedro II point of view: the interest in writing and the trip. This dissertation concludes by raising hypotheses regarding the public and 7 particular motivations for the trip to Minas Gerais in 1881, when the imperialinstitutions and representatives were suffering a serious attack.