Minha terra tem palmeiras. Onde canta o sabiá.
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This essay will investigate the construction of Brazilian identity based on founding myths and how society, in general, continues to define itself based on them. Analyzing the censorship of the exhibition Queermuseu – Cartografias da Diferença na Arte da Brasileira, I intend to demonstrate how in the Brazilian's imaginary, it remains alive the need to follow social, religious, political, moral, etc standards that are pre-established, and operate, inexorably, to make society comply and perpetuate dominant ideologies. From the mentioned event, I desire to draw a parallel between the Brazilian Founding Myth, which contributes to the permanence of a traditionally shallow conception of the Brazilian social construction and the impact of this logic in the current social …show more content…
‘In this case, the different or the other is defined in relation to developed capitalist countries, taken as if they were a fully realized unity and totality. It is via the image of the complete development of the other that our "identity", defined as underdeveloped, appears lacunar and made up of faults and privations.’ (Chaui, p.22) Thus we understand that the definition of "national identity" is always given in the comparative context. I also want to explore the history of the Brazilian Colonization and the perpetuation of “tales” throughout the centuries, that given society no room for open and critical discussion to ensure their plausibility. As well as the European legacy and its crucial importance in the creation of symbols and ideologies (Noble Savage, Indianism, Institutional racism to name a few) that permeate and produce the identity of Brazil, invariably, preserving a pessimistic and depreciative character in the unconscious of its
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This essay will investigate the construction of Brazilian identity based on founding myths and how society, in general, continues to define itself based on them. Analyzing the censorship of the exhibition Queermuseu – Cartografias da Diferença na Arte da Brasileira, I intend to demonstrate how in the Brazilian's imaginary, it remains alive the need to follow social, religious, political, moral, etc standards that are pre-established, and operate, inexorably, to make society comply and perpetuate dominant ideologies. From the mentioned event, I desire to draw a parallel between the Brazilian Founding Myth, which contributes to the permanence of a traditionally shallow conception of the Brazilian social construction and the impact of this logic in the current social …show more content…
‘In this case, the different or the other is defined in relation to developed capitalist countries, taken as if they were a fully realized unity and totality. It is via the image of the complete development of the other that our "identity", defined as underdeveloped, appears lacunar and made up of faults and privations.’ (Chaui, p.22) Thus we understand that the definition of "national identity" is always given in the comparative context. I also want to explore the history of the Brazilian Colonization and the perpetuation of “tales” throughout the centuries, that given society no room for open and critical discussion to ensure their plausibility. As well as the European legacy and its crucial importance in the creation of symbols and ideologies (Noble Savage, Indianism, Institutional racism to name a few) that permeate and produce the identity of Brazil, invariably, preserving a pessimistic and depreciative character in the unconscious of its