SCA-UA 572 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anagram, Miscegenation, Acculturation
5 Feb 2015
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Slide: ernest renan: everyone in nation has a lot in common with each other. Slide: 19th c discourses of the nation: liberal: emphasis on freedom and rights and sovereignty (self-ruling nation, romantic: emphasis on emotion and blood and spirit and the people. Slide: dilemmas of creole nation-building: see ppt. Slide: special challenges for brazil"s artists and writers: continuing role of slavery; robust institution until 1880s, never went through war of independence- no hero, no pre-columbian empires (aztecs and incas) Slide: instituting the nation: historical and geographic institute (1838): Slide: europe and america: need to create specifically brazilian history and cultural identity that isn"t an extension of portuguese culture, tension between trying to create what is authentically brazilian and also trying to be civilized like europe. Slide: stories and rise of brazilian nation: remember together, forget together, doris sommer: in almost every nation everyone knows that one story.
