Breve reflexão sobre o Nacionalismo a a identidade nacional no Brasil: a relevância das literaturas romântica e modernista brasileiras

Abstract

We know that men, different from the other animals, is a predominantely cultural being, and the way to satisfact its vital necessities changes from a social group to another, so its behaviour is not determined biologically, once they are resulted from learning and developing processes (KROEBER, 1993, p. 43-45). Therefore, when thinkg about brazilian identity, there are recurring subjects as such: “What is it like to be brazilian?”; “What is brazilian identity?”; “When our identity began to be recognized as such and independente from other identities?”. DaMatta (1986, p. 11), going from similar reflections, acknowledges that the identity subject is something recurrent in Human Sciences. The need to know “who we are” and “why we are” brings up constant discussions and, in this sense, to reach the definition of “who we are” it is needed to “find out how we did constructo our identity”, therefore, to determinate what it is to “be brazilian”, before anything, we need to acknowledge the particular and determinant traces of the brazilian people or what many call the brazilian eu nacional – a national element of being. Having such reflections as a foreseeable point, what was proposed in this essay was a brief reflection about the relevance of the literary romantic and modernist texts in the process of recognizing the brazilian national identity, because these producions were widely characterized in our literary historiography as having a nationalistic character.