Brasil, África e a (re)organização do discurso colonial em Eça de Queirós

Abstract

In order to understand yet another aspect of the production of ambiguous effect in Eça de Queirós’ later works – namely A correspondência de Fradique Mendes and, in particular, A ilustre casa de Ramires – we seek to think about the silences, mutes and various gaps that, before being omitted, produce constant meanings to the fictional elaborations of Brazil, present in Fradique’s letter to Eduardo Prado, and of the African continent in Gonçalo Ramires. Our hypothesis, therefore, is to think about the organization or reorganization of discourses, ideals and, in a broader sense, the colonial ideological framework of the 19th century in Eça de Queirós, which, in our reading, seeks to produce different effects from the representational selfconsciousness of these same colonial discourses.