A utopia nacionalista de Manoel Bomfim

Abstract

This text is dedicated to the comprehension of the designation of a nation in Manoel Bomfim. The thesis that sustain this conception is that Brazil made itself a nation based on all the needed predicates to its consolidation (social cohesion, love for the land, love for the homeland and resistance) in the XVI and XVII century. The national strength, expression used by Bomfim to refer to the country formation, manifested in specific moments, known, during the resistance to the French invasion, and later Holland's. And that’s how the Brazilian nation was founded, in its invader's defeat. The resistant tradition knowledge and founder of the the homeland - lifted by the nations strength and in the sweat drained from the heroes of the nation in its defense - Bomfim received writings from Rober Southey. The national strength gained tonality in the authors writings, in analyse, because its force relied on the feelings, in the passion and in the love for the homeland. Our proposition is to expose the arguments imposed by Bomfim, that conferrers support to the appearing of the national phenomenon, based on the love for the homeland and that, later, will heat it up the four revolutions of the XIX century (time signed by the composition of the national Brazilian State).