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- Title
The symbolic exploration of Brazil in defense of the Lusitanian Empire: an analysis of civic celebrations and Portuguese textbooks (1880-1960).
- Authors
de OLIVEIRA, Sarah Luna
- Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to size the relevance of Brazil towards self-defensives and self-advertisement strategies of the Portuguese Empire between 1880 and 1960. However, these devices transcended mere symbolism since the goal was to accomplish practical deals within the Portuguese-Brazilian affairs of state over these years. Mindful of that, the first step of our investigation was to analyse the participation of the Brazilian authorities in the Portuguese civic celebrations and vice versa. Based on such analysis, it was possible to detect the result of the intrinsic Portuguese-Brazilian fraternity manifestations which, eventually, strengthened the core of their diplomatic relationship in different intensities. On the other hand, it was quite clear to perceive the Portuguese intensification on portraying an idyllic Brazil, exactly during the more challenging historic contexts for the survival of the Lusitan Empire. It explains the apotheotic participation of Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitscheck during the celebration of the fifth century of Infante D. Henrique's death in 1960. Exactly, when the Portuguese colonialism faced both internal and external pressures, such as The United Nations's advocacy for the right of self determination of peoples, besides the threats of Capitalist and Socialist blocs, both competing for the African and Asian territories under the Portuguese domain. In a second moment, the criticism of the Portuguese school literature produced between 1880 and 1960 also revealed the same approach towards the ex South American colony, always mentioned in a more or less effusive way, depending to political and historical conjunctures of the Lusitan Empire. Anyway, the language of the textbooks and their content, utilized throughout the years of schooling, was way more effective at the diffusion of an allegorical image of Brazil. By this point of view, we feel safe to admit that the lessons of the scholar textbooks about the ex-colony outlasted the ephemeral traits of those civic celebrations. Moreover, a deeper analysis on the teachings about the old South American colony, as displayed by the Portuguese school literature, became quite crucial so that we understand both their paradigmatic depiction, as much as the purposeful silence that has made up the map on the strategic evocation of the "Portuguese America". Finally, full exploration of civic celebrations alongside textbooks to the average duration of the late nineteenth to mid -twentieth century offers us a complementary view of symbolic uses of the image of Brazil constantly explored as a paradigm of the civilizing talents of the Lusitan Empire.
- Subjects
PORTUGAL; HISTORY textbooks; BRAZILIAN foreign relations; INTERNATIONAL relations
- Publication
E-Journal of Portuguese History, 2019, Vol 17, Issue 2, p407
- ISSN
1645-6432
- Publication type
Abstract