Brazilian culture : nationalism by elimination

In: New left review: NLR, Heft 167, S. 77-90

Abstract

The culture of Brazil, like that of other Latin American countries, is often characterized as imitative and inauthentic, in thrall to European and North American fashions. This paper mentions the premises of a cultural nationalism based on denunciations of cultural copying, in which abstract and ideological conceptions of imitation are detached from underlying historical imperatives and class relations