Deslocações transatlânticas com João Ubaldo Ribeiro

Abstract

Um brasileiro em Berlim, an anthology of chronicles resulting from a transatlantic displacement that includes a stay in Berlin by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, offers the reader the possibility of contact with a whole doxa that allows approaching displacements in social discourse. These displacements put face to face a First World (European) and a New World (Brazilian). The aim of this brief study is to identify issues of identity and otherness that are addressed by the writer's corrosive irony, making it possible to lay bare the cultural construct of the representations in circulation, thus deconstructing an essentialist and simplistic pseudo-knowledge about the other.