Desiring Nation

• Grant number: 12/03634-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: June 01, 2012
• End date: May 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Richard Miskolci Escudeiro
• Grantee: Richard Miskolci Escudeiro
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Desiring Nation analyzes the origin of a new national imaginary at the end of XIX Century in Brazil. This imaginary was connected to an increased intest on the role of sexuality and desire in the emerging political and cultural brazilian republican society. Based on a repertory of Feminist, Queer, and Post-Colonial sources, the book explores the relations between a new morality, sex, and gender relations. Its main objects of analysis are historical documents, Brazilian social thought and the analysis of three novels written in the Brazilian fin-de-siècle. (AU)