Brazil has long been a country in search of its own meaning and
mission. Early in their history Brazilians began to puzzle over
their surroundings and their relation to them. The eighteenth
century produced an entire school of nativistic writers who, with
the advent of independence, became fiery nationalists, still
pursuing introspective studies of their homeland. Throughout the
nineteenth century, the intellectuals of Brazil determined to
define their nation, its character, and its aspirations.
In this now well-established tradition, Jose Honorio Rodrigues
confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what
Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going. This
study, originally published in Portuguese as Aspiracoes nacionais,
was especially timely at a period when strong feelings of
nationalism led Brazilians to seek to define their own image, and
when the revolution of rising expectations disposed them to
determine what goals they were seeking and how far they were on the
road to achieving them.
In order to understand and explain his nation, Rodrigues poses
two questions: what are the national characteristics, and what are
the national aspirations? Both questions are complex, but the
reader will find well-reasoned answers, with a wealth of
information on growth and development and abundant statistics to
substantiate these answers.
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