The internationalization of Brazilian culture and the global South

• Grant number: 14/15371-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2014
• End date: November 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de Melo
• Grantee: Alfredo Cesar Barbosa de Melo
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Because the anthropophagic paradigm, the Brazilian intellectuals frequently conceive Brazilian Culture as a transforming force of the European cultural models. Those intellectuals hardly theorize about the insertion of Brazilian culture in other countries, especially those from the South. In this project we describe how the presence of Brazilian culture helped Lusophone African countries to structure their literature and social thought. The research intends to comprehend Brazilian literature within a inter-identitarian framework (Brazil as a country that both transforms foreign models and provides models for other countries), and draw the consequences of this analytical step. The financial aid requested for the project execution is for research in Portugal, in order to investigate how it took place the control and circulation of the Brazilian book in territories then administred by the Portuguese colonial authorities. (AU)