O Nacionalismo romântico e a formação de uma literatura nacional no Brasil

Abstract

We come from discussion related to the Romanticism to understand how the very own concept of national particularities helped the Brazilian romanticists to the process of making up the defense of our very own literature. It’s known that nineteenth century was confined between national consciousness and the Portuguese wishes to keep the farmer American colony under its domain even after Brazil proclaimed its independence. So it’s recurrent the way of putting into category some Brazilian writers, under “Histórias da Literatura Portuguesa” from that time, under a pretext that the literature’s nationality is determined by language, but not by writer’s origin. So we can realize Portugal wanted to oppress Brazil, through culture, although not controlling the former colony politically. In this study, we seek to present the forms of opposition from which the romantic nationalism, from its appreciation of local color, could make our intellectuals aware of a Brazilian culture, then producing and defending a local literature, that could not present another culture the was not the Brazilian one, hence portraying their people and culture.