World War One and Brazilian Cultural Life

• Autor(es): Oliveira,Lúcia Lippi
• Data: 2017
• Origem: SciELO Portugal
• Assunto(s): First Republic; Anti-Lusitanian Nationalism; Pereira Passos Reform; Carioca Belle Époque; Reinvention of Brazil
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo científico
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

Addressing the repercussions of the First World War on Brazilian cultural life, this article highlights the conflictual relationship between Brazil and Portugal during the Brazilian First Republic. Rio de Janeiro’s urban reform, which aimed at transforming the capital into a ‘tropical Paris’ (proof of the country’s modernization and its accession to the belle époque), was seen to represent liberation from the colonial past. However, the War shattered these illusions and overthrew the trust hitherto placed in the values of European civilization, now considered decadent. New diagnoses and therapies began to guide nationalist political movements. Old struggles were brought up to date and the Portuguese legacy was once more reevaluated.