Regiões e totalidades nos textos de críticos portugueses sobre escritos de história do Brasil (1942-1968)

Abstract

The basic assumption for this article is that narratives organize spaces. Thus, this study discusses the relationship between maps and route, region and place, control and diversion, and reflects on critique by shifting the concept of space onto the notion of region. The Portuguese intelligentsia associated with the Language School of Coimba University between 1942 and 1968 produced a considerable amount of critic texts. There is an outstanding set of analy- ses and descriptions of work by Brazilian authors, articles published in the Brasilia magazine, which are discussed here. In its early years, the magazine disseminated, in its critic section, Brazilian intellectual production from the “Double Centenary” celebrations. Such critiques show how the criteria used organize places and constitute regions.