Relações Inter-humanas e espaços de alteridade negada no Novo Mundo

os escritos de Colombo e a visão primeira sobre a terra e sobre o outro

Abstract

The current article’s scope is to discuss the first perceptions about the New World, especially on the spatial view ambit regarding the new lands and on its human element characterization, having the denied alterity concept as background. To such a thing, it has been opted for methodologically effectuating a textual analysis on the then Admiral of the Ocean Sea’s writings, the navigator Christopher Columbus, as these writings reflect and bode a set of perspectives about the Indies space, unfold in a conquest process, westernization and in a “empyting” view of these areas. Assuming a correlate debate to the historiographic panorama intrinsic to the theme, we seek to collaborate with a discussion around the relations between human beings and spaces in the neophyte New World.