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This article seeks to address the idea of genuinely Brazilian nationality in the work of Oswald
de Andrade, one of the main exponents and promoters of outstanding national culture. The
Oswaldian narratives take us to a deep dive into the Brazilian personality, since the author of O
Rei da Vela introduced important modernist concepts in our society, thus moving away from all
the romantic eloquence that previously prevailed, thus evidencing his search by an original
national soul. Oswald with his typically irreverent and combative temperament showed us: a
radicality in his poetry of such grandeur for the country; an excessive taste of a Brazilian
magnificence; and lastly, a creative literary language ranging from objectivity to sublime
reality. In view of this, analyzing works by this author of prestigious dimension, is
predominantly important with regard to primitive and “free” Brazil from other foreign currents.
For this research, Fiorin (2009), Barros (2014), Oliveira and Ferreira (2014) will share the same
conceptual vision with regard to Brazilianness as a theoretical basis. Therefore, the Brazil that
showed itself and shows itself based on this Oswaldian national identity aesthetic reveals a new
look that flourished critically in modernism, but that drags information from the 18th and 19th
centuries, mainly from the latter, revealing an intense search for a national identity that reveals
the full breadth of our diversity within the process of identity construction. With that, we note
that Modernism wanted to go beyond the romantic look and assume a Brazilian identity, in
addition to bringing with it a whole social and cultural context capable of make us reflect on
who we are. Thanks to this, what we perceive is that Modernism leveraged Brazilian culture,
fixing the uniqueness of its identity both at the national and international levels, especially with
regard to the process of identity construction at the literary level.
Resumo
This article seeks to address the idea of genuinely Brazilian nationality in the work of Oswald
de Andrade, one of the main exponents and promoters of outstanding national culture. The
Oswaldian narratives take us to a deep dive into the Brazilian personality, since the author of O
Rei da Vela introduced important modernist concepts in our society, thus moving away from all
the romantic eloquence that previously prevailed, thus evidencing his search by an original
national soul. Oswald with his typically irreverent and combative temperament showed us: a
radicality in his poetry of such grandeur for the country; an excessive taste of a Brazilian
magnificence; and lastly, a creative literary language ranging from objectivity to sublime
reality. In view of this, analyzing works by this author of prestigious dimension, is
predominantly important with regard to primitive and “free” Brazil from other foreign currents.
For this research, Fiorin (2009), Barros (2014), Oliveira and Ferreira (2014) will share the same
conceptual vision with regard to Brazilianness as a theoretical basis. Therefore, the Brazil that
showed itself and shows itself based on this Oswaldian national identity aesthetic reveals a new
look that flourished critically in modernism, but that drags information from the 18th and 19th
centuries, mainly from the latter, revealing an intense search for a national identity that reveals
the full breadth of our diversity within the process of identity construction. With that, we note
that Modernism wanted to go beyond the romantic look and assume a Brazilian identity, in
addition to bringing with it a whole social and cultural context capable of make us reflect on
who we are. Thanks to this, what we perceive is that Modernism leveraged Brazilian culture,
fixing the uniqueness of its identity both at the national and international levels, especially with
regard to the process of identity construction at the literary level.