THE INTERPRETERS OF BRAZIL

SOCIOPOLITICAL THOUGHT BASED ON IDEAS FLOW, NARRATIVE AND REALITIES IN SEARCH OF A BRAZILIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY

Abstract

This article aims at understanding Brazil from the historical flow of thought of their interpreters and investigating whether there is a central issue that permeates the various narratives, whether of a political, sociological or other. The conclusion shows that the search for a Brazilian identity and the will to understand us as people is present in the writing of several “Brazil interpreters” examined here, as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Victor Nunes Leal, Raymundo Faoro, Florestan Fernandes, Jessé Souza, among others. Similarly, it finds out that the constitution of the Brazilian identity encompasses concepts such as subordination, undercitizenship, submission, dependency relationships, inequality, passivity, fatalism, familism, cordiality, among other qualifications that were forged through coloniality, patrimonialism, the estamental domination, “colonelism”, authoritarianism and autocracy, restricted democracy, dependent capitalism, physical and symbolic violence, exclusion, servile relations and privileges, so well present in the Brazilian life.