ABSTRACT
The article aims to reflect about the foreignness statute of the backwoodsman in the Euclides da Cunha masterpiece. Using migrations theoretical concepts, it discusses the contribution that this book report gives for the migration’s theme from their own existing contractions about otherness, purity and nationality constructed from positivist thought that dominated the intellectuals of this period and reflected of media forms of the press. By the end, the texte reflects about the mainstream press in nowadays and its forms of popular representation.
KEYWORDS:
Stranger; otherness; press