FOR A BRAZILIAN GRAMMAR OF A DECOLONIAL THINKING: From Unacceptable Nicknames Like o País do carnaval to Brasil, um país do futuro as a Manifesto Against Racism

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  • Sandra Bagno Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v47i1.1204

Keywords:

O País do Carnaval, Jorge Amado, Brasil, um país do futuro, Stefan Zweig, Decolonial thinking, Carnival, Racial miscegenation

Abstract

Political and cultural current debates tend to focus on expressions that define Brazil as o país do carnaval, thus ironically evoking the debut novel, in 1931, by Jorge Amado; or even as o país do futuro, sarcastically alluding to the essay
published by Stefan Zweig in 1941. Anyway the success of these two different works helped to highlight significant questions even more recognizable nowadays if observed in the light of the decolonial thinking and towards a perspective of
autonomy related to categories and stereotypes of European heritage. In fact the first one theorizes the mental and geographical gap between Brazilian Carnival features and old European nicknames. The second one anticipates the peculiarity of the Brazilian paradigm with its racial miscegenation as a presupposition for a possible coexistence, just while the World War II catastrophes were showing to the world the folly, among others, of racist logics.

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Author Biography

Sandra Bagno, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova

Professora Associada e Integrante do Conselho Científico do Dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche, Filologiche e Letterarie – Romanistica na Università degli Studi di Padova (Itália). Sócia fundadora e membro do “Consiglio direttivo dell’AISPEB – Associazione Italiana di Studi Portoghesi e Brasiliani”.

Published

2018-12-31

How to Cite

Bagno, S. (2018). FOR A BRAZILIAN GRAMMAR OF A DECOLONIAL THINKING: From Unacceptable Nicknames Like o País do carnaval to Brasil, um país do futuro as a Manifesto Against Racism. Revista Da Anpoll, 1(47), 18–36. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v47i1.1204

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