Corpos desvendados ou esculpidos? Discursos sobre mulheres negras nos livros de viagens no Rio de Janeiro, primeira metade do século XIX

Abstract

T h e clothes, bows, hair, feet, ha nds, mouths, and all elements of the bodies of black evidenced through words and drawings in books Europeans, were unraveled by her curious eye s and sculpted by desirous eyes ? The question guiding the effort to map and analyze the emergence of the statemen t on the bodies of black women in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in travel literature in the early nineteenth century. Understanding the books as a discursive materiality, I realize that not only are black comprise the descriptions, but the authors and the au thors, because their identities and subjectivities are constructed and emerge through the production of speech. Understand how concepts are formed, versions, intelligible, truths, and visibilities dizibilidades about black women and their bodies, can shed light on the exercise of white power, European, masculine, scientific placed them as the object of study.