The Ethnographic Effect in Correspondence of Fradique Mendes, by Eça de Queirós
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1517-106X/2025e69401Abstract
This essay aims to read Correspondence of Fradique Mendes at the intersection of literature and anthropology, focusing on the place that ethnography occupies in the work, considering that the epistolary character is also a traveler, that is, “a man defined as one who passes through”. Given his refusal to create a work of what he experienced wherever he went, we resort to the work of the British anthropologist Marilyn Strathern and the idea of an “ethnographic effect”, a partial and untimely one, and therefore more akin to the obstacles of knowledge, already notable in the epistolary prose of Eça de Queirós.
Keywords: Ethnographic Effect; Fradique Mendes; Heteronym; Literature and Anthropology.
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