I’m going to recycle this photocopy although I shouldn’t, probably — it is about O Guaraní. Anyway, at least I will read or reread it first.
- The idea that B lacks an identity (and that the central countries have one)
- What are we? leads to the question what aren’t we?
- Nina Rodrigues wanted B to face the fact that, for instance, 2/3 of Bahia wasn’t Christian. Social sciences wanted to present a version of B that would comfort the elite
- Intellectuals of 1900 had to face the contradiction: desire for civilization and material conditions that made it impossible
- Folklorists are trying to preserve the last traces of the past but other intellectuals wanted to get rid of a past that wasn’t modern (Black people, Native peoples). S. Romero, on the other hand, said B folklore was fragmentary because there wer only fragmentary remains from these people and the European middle ages…
- So in O Guarani, we get a feeling of incongruene and deescompasso, since the medievalism is so obviously faux. BUT there’s all this florid nature to play in…
- OK, so yes. I get it. Remember that Dom A. de Mariz has hidden in the jungles of Brazil in the late 16C, when Portugal became part of Spain. There, he could go on as a Portuguese fidalgo, and so on. Very well. I will find Ortiz’ study again if I need to, I had not copied as many pages of it as I had thought.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 