Modernities confronting: the brazilian and portuguese modernist literatures / Modernidades em confronto: as literaturas modernistas brasileiras e portuguesa

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2009

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This thesis investigates the reasons of the dialogue interruption or at least the silence between Brazilian and Portuguese modernist authors. Engaged to a common problematic, the renovation of artistic languages, both Brazilian and Portuguese authors were situated in a shared level to establish a more direct confrontation towards a renewed language that had effects which exceeded the limits of literature. The project developed in Brazil and in Portugal combined the renovation of the artistic language and the modernization of each nation, thus articulating the modernist movement to a modernity proposition. Consequently, the idea of modernity that could emerge of both modernist movements presents a nationalist aspect that is absent in the modernism developed in central Europe. Considering the social specificities in which each one of these movements were inserted, the nationalist aspect is mobilized in the perspective of the multiple Modernities that could be formulated by each one of these modernist projects. Despite the shared problematic that has concerned both movements, the textual solutions found by each one of them were different. The Brazilian case was based on the affirmation of the national autonomy by erasing its past and constituting a structured autonomous literary canon, as if the Brazilian culture had been originated in itself in an autochthonous perspective. In the Portuguese case, authors abdicated the denial of the past as one of the most fundamental aspects of Modernism. It was through past that the image of a modernized Portugal arose. Hence, the incompatibility that prevented the establishment of a proficuous intellectual debate among those authors was originated precisely from these different solutions managed by each one of the movements to compass themselves to other central European vanguards: as part of the past denied by Brazilian modernism, Portugal is considered obsolete and left aside, despite the anteriority of its modernist movement; as a figure that disregards the myth of the Portuguese heroism in exploring and tracing the modern world map, Brazil becomes a less important interlocutor. Thus, this thesis discusses the proximity and distancing of these two movements.

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sociologia culture sociology modernity modernism modernidade cultura modernismo

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