Cultura, literatura, identidade e a construção de ideais nacionais

Abstract

We propose here to reflect about Portuguese cultural and literary history, holding back some contributions of poets, writers, intellectuals to the construction of mobilizing ideals of Portuguese society (and not only): from the critical conscience and the ideal of heroism of Camões, passing through the “Quinto Império” and António Vieira, by the universalistic “Saudosismo” of Pascoais, the “Iintegralismo Lusitano” of António Sardinha (and its relations with the political French movement of Charles Maurras), until the “Pátria Universal” and the Modernism of Pessoa or still until the vision of Saramago or even Eduardo Lourenço. All have showed us that there is no future without a reading of the past that makes us to see further. From the first “globalization” in the time of the Portuguese Discovery to the recent European Portugal and the Age of the total globalization of our days, an important question emerges: the question of cultural identities.

Keywords

• Culture
• Literature
• Identity
• Ideals
• Nationalities