A “antiquização†da América – utilizando motivos clássicos como
modelos de apropriação imperial – é uma estratégia retórica central no relato
de viagem de Alexander von Humboldt. Ao longo da experiência colonial, no
The “antiquization†of America, using classicist motifs as imperial
models of appropriation, is a central rhetorical strategy in Alexander von
Humboldt’s travelogue. Over the course of the colonial experience this discourse
is infused with tension: metaphoric and metonymic types of references collide;
positive and negative connotations are superimposed; incompatible modes of
