Paper short abstract:

I present the results of a literature, qualitative and interdisciplinary research on travel literature, considering it a literary heterotopia (Foucault, 2013), understanding the body as a place (Corbain, 2008) and as a text (Certeau, 2014; Preciado, 2014).

Paper long abstract:

I present the results of a literature, qualitative and interdisciplinary research on travel literature, considering it a literary heterotopia (Foucault, 2013). I conduct a literature review and revisit general aspects of the literature cited. Addressing body and gender representations, understanding the body as a place (Corbain, 2008) and as a text (Certeau, 2014; Preciado, 2014), which can undergo interpretation schemes based on circumstances, their time and the current time. I address travel literature as a founding place/time/text for the observation of others and a founding literary heterotopia of the ways of dealing with otherness in Brazil, which can give clues about the current situation regarding the subjects of this research.