The current thesis is an attempt to interpret the Portuguese New State and its Brazilian counterpart between 1933-1945 from literary and cultural perspectives. By dissecting and analyzing the construction of national identity as well as the components thereof, the dissertation seeks to expose and explain both the similarities and differences between the two dictatorial regimes in the process of nation-building. which results in the contrast between the imagined community that characterizes the utopian weltanschauung of Salazarism and emotional community that mirrors the Getúlio Vargas's populism and Brazilian patriarchal legacy. In relation to Salazar's Portugal, the anti-salazarist literary works, namely the neo-realism, are discussed in detail to demonstrate how neo-realist literature constitutes an anti-oficial national identity genre, while, for Getúlio Brazil, after a review of Brazilian intellectual history, the thesis intends to illustrate the importance of modernist movement and its connection, either implicit or explicit, with the Brazilian New State. The dissertation also explains why the Portuguese modernism and the Brazilian neo-realism ou regionalism are of lesser relevance for that particular period.
Liu, Yi,
"Faces de Jano: A Identidade Nacional nos Estados Novos de Salazar e Getúlio, 1933-1945"
(2009).
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0BZ649S
