Shipwreck narratives: between History and Literature. Reflections on História Trágico-Marítima (Tragic-maritime History)

Authors

  • Angélica Madeira Sociology department – University of Brasília – UnB / Rio Branco Institute – Ministery of Foreign Affairs

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17398/1888-4067.12_2.95

Keywords:

Tragic-maritime History, Baroque allegory, Literature and History

Abstract

This article on História Trágico-Marítima (Tragic-maritime History)
Brito:1735/36), explores the narratives firstly for the empirical data they
contain – a socio-historical approach – in search of fragments in order
to reconstruct a specific maritime society. It then focuses on the main
ensemble of images, bound together by an allegory which is the raison
d’être and the major interest of the report: “Tempest and Shipwreck”.
This constitutes the core of the account, embedded in a Baroque
construction which organizes a complex narrative and the rhetorical
conventions of new discourses emerging together with the European
empire.
Shipwreck narratives seem to be a key to understanding the links that
exist between discourse, event, and society, especially since those texts
emerged at a moment...

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Published

07/17/2022

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Madeira, A. (2022). Shipwreck narratives: between History and Literature. Reflections on História Trágico-Marítima (Tragic-maritime History) . Limite. Revista De Estudios Portugueses Y De La lusofonía, 12(2), 95-111. https://doi.org/10.17398/1888-4067.12_2.95