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Raquel Ochoa is a contemporary Portuguese writer who is deeply
passionate about traveling and writing. This study analyzes her 2008 book,
O Vento dos Outros (The wind of others), a series of travel crónicas across
Central and South America, with the aim of situating Ochoa within Portuguese literary journalism. For six months, the author drifted aimlessly from
the Andes in Costa Rica to Patagonia in Argentina, describing the theatre of
reality from a sentimental woman’s perspective. Ochoa, a travel writer who
immersed herself to meet the Other, uses “their winds” to reveal alterity.
In a literary and subjective style, Ochoa reveals Latin American landscapes
as well as detailed personal encounters and adventures with real people
through an exploration of the senses and emotions. Moreover, her critical
portrayal of the social plight of the Latin American peoples, a by-product of
colonization and globalization, confers Ochoa a place in Portuguese literary
journalism.
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Raquel Ochoa; Literary Journalism; Travel Literature; Portuguese Female crónicas
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Citation
Baltazar, R. & Amorim, R. (2020) Of Wind and the Other: Literary Journalism by a Portuguese Female Travel Writer. Literary Journalism Studies., 12/1, p. 134-149.