The Marquise of Santos: History, Memory and Historical Fiction in Brazil on the First Half of the Twentieth Century

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Angela Maria de Castro
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/34424
• topic: Brazil history. Historical novel. Paulo Setúbal.; Historia do Brasil. Novela histórica. Paulo Setúbal.; Ensino de História. Romance histórico. Paulo Setúbal.

This article argues that during the first half of the twentieth century, alongside the effort to construct a “scientific and modern” narrative of Brazilian history, it was also produced a historical narrative that could be taught to a large audience. It mobilized many intellectuals – historians, writers, editors, plastic artists, etc. – creating a matrix that became part of the political culture and republican historical culture of the country. Here we analyze a paradigmatic example of this type of narrative: the historical novel A Marquesa de Santos, written by Paulo Setúbal and published in 1925.