Peddlers: wandering heroes who overshadow the memory of immigration? Research in the collection of the Institute of Arab Culture offers elements to rethink narratives about Arab immigrants in Brazil which were constructed amid processes of exaltation and oblivion

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Christina Stephano de Queiroz

Abstract

The Institute of Arab Culture (ICArabe) has a wide collection of publications created by authors of Arab descent between the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. One of the most significant is the magazine O Oriente. An exploratory research carried out from October 2022 to September 2023 mapped the objects in this archive and identified initial elements to rethink the memory of Arab immigration in Brazil, in which the figure of the peddler, or traveling salesman, plays a central role.

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Christina Stephano de Queiroz, Cátedra Edward Said da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp)

Doutora em Literatura pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP) e mestre em Identidades Culturais pela Universidade de Barcelona. Bolsista da Cátedra Edward Said da Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp). Autora de A Lua do Oriente e Outras Luas – Biografia e seleção de poemas de Jamil Almansur Haddad (Ateliê Editorial, 2022), livro que é fruto de pesquisa premiada pela USP. Jornalista de ciência e roteirista.

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Peddlers: wandering heroes who overshadow the memory of immigration? Research in the collection of the Institute of Arab Culture offers elements to rethink narratives about Arab immigrants in Brazil which were constructed amid processes of exaltation and oblivion. EXILIUM Journal of Contemporary Studies, [S. l.], v. 5, n. 8, p. 135–150, 2024. DOI: 10.34024/exilium.v5i8.16342. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/exilium/article/view/16342. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.