Brazil and issues of cultural and national identity in Latin America

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Auteur principal: Júlio Diniz
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contents Brazil and issues of cultural and national identity in Latin America Júlio Diniz Estudios Culturales Bahia Brazil Colonialism The 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese in theAmerican continent has underscored, this year, in innumerable intellectualcircles, the need to re-discuss issues linked to colonialism and postcolonialism,dependency relations, globalization, and all the related culturalimplications this discussion brings up.The current attempt to activate the mechanisms of an epic memory ofthe process of constructing the Brazilian race and civilization, bysymbolically confirming the coast of Bahia as the place of choice, reaffirmsthe foundational myth. Additionally, the myth is updated in the light of theindustry of culture and of tourism, according to the clichés and stereotypesdiffused around the world that sell Bahia (and Brazil) as the “land ofeternal summer, with a happy, cordial, orderly, and friendly people, withexuberant tropical nature” – the first and original identity of the “Brazilian being.” Abstract by Redalyc. 2000 otro 1600-0110 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16200203 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=162 Diálogos Latinoamericanos application/pdf Aarhus Universitet Diálogos Latinoamericanos (Dinamarca) Num.2
format Artículo científico
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publishDate 2000
publisher Aarhus Universitet
spellingShingle Brazil and issues of cultural and national identity in Latin America
Júlio Diniz
Estudios Culturales
Bahia
Brazil
Colonialism
Brazil and issues of cultural and national identity in Latin America Júlio Diniz Estudios Culturales Bahia Brazil Colonialism The 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Portuguese in theAmerican continent has underscored, this year, in innumerable intellectualcircles, the need to re-discuss issues linked to colonialism and postcolonialism,dependency relations, globalization, and all the related culturalimplications this discussion brings up.The current attempt to activate the mechanisms of an epic memory ofthe process of constructing the Brazilian race and civilization, bysymbolically confirming the coast of Bahia as the place of choice, reaffirmsthe foundational myth. Additionally, the myth is updated in the light of theindustry of culture and of tourism, according to the clichés and stereotypesdiffused around the world that sell Bahia (and Brazil) as the “land ofeternal summer, with a happy, cordial, orderly, and friendly people, withexuberant tropical nature” – the first and original identity of the “Brazilian being.” Abstract by Redalyc. 2000 otro 1600-0110 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16200203 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=162 Diálogos Latinoamericanos application/pdf Aarhus Universitet Diálogos Latinoamericanos (Dinamarca) Num.2
title Brazil and issues of cultural and national identity in Latin America
topic Estudios Culturales
Bahia
Brazil
Colonialism
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16200203