Viscount of Taunay's French-Brazilian identity

Abstract

In his novels, especially those of regional character, Viscount
of Taunay has used genuinely national elements,
in order to exploit local themes, agreeing to the literary
nationalism of the nineteenth-century in Brazil. Besides
this Brazilianness, we find marks in his work that
reveal traces of Europeanized individuality, whose origin
can be assigned to the education received by their
relatives, from France. This article is focused in this
double identity of Taunay. Based on the assumptions
of the imagology, according to Daniel-Henri Pageaux,
these images will be analyzed in some of his works, in
which we will observe how the author, as Brazilian, seems
imbued with French values.