"Ver o outro nos próprios olhos": a revista Brasília e o projeto de lusitanização do Atlântico Sul (1942-1949)

Abstract

Our main objective in this dissertation is to investigate the lusitanization project of the South Atlantic region through the analysis of the Brasília magazine throughout the years that encompassed the “Spirit Policy” (1942-1949). This intention was put into practice through a double movement. Firstly, we analyze the conditions under which Brasília was created, so we can understand the relationship between this magazine and the intellectual and political fields in this period of time (chapter I). As a result, we also explore the discourses contained within Brasília as a space of visibility of the pan-lusitanist policy. We also investigate within its various sections (The life of the Brazilian Studies Institute, Critics, Articles, Documents, Chronicles, Notes, Anthologies) the relationship between these discourses and the values and myths concerning Salazarism. Secondly, we analyze these relations through productions which are mainly about the “Atlantic Policy” (chapter II). Thirdly, we investigate historiographic texts which implicitly discuss this matter (chapter III). The examination of these diverse discourses and the lusitanization project of the South Atlantic allow us to notice the intimate relationship between Brazilian and Portuguese academics in their defense of this corporative and authoritarian project, and, fundamentally, in the protection of the Portuguese colonialism in Africa.