The formulation of Brazilian literature and indentity in José de Alencar’s literary criticism (1856 – 1867)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the development of Brazilian identity idea elaborated in the literary field. For this, we drove our examination to writer José de Alencar demonstrating his important contribution to the achievement of Brazilian nationality that had been gestating since the early romantic writers, as writers around the Nitheroy magazine, launched in Paris in 1836.

Keywords

• we drove our examination to writer José de Alencar demonstrating his important contribution to the achievement of Brazilian nationality that had been gestating since the early romantic writers
• as writers around the Nitheroy magazine
• Literature and History
• José de Alencar
• Brazilian Identity
• Nationalism