Pan-American identities and cooperation through the literary supplement thought of america

Abstract

This study investigates the strategies adopted by the government of Getúlio Vargas, between the years 1942 to 1945, to enable the construction of a national sentiment along with a union in relation to the American republics. Such strategies are expressed in a cultural and political perspective in the Thought of the supplement pages of America, the newspaper The Morning. From the moment in which the national cultures disclosed on pages supplement produced a direction with which the population could be identified, the identities were constructed guided primarily in the ideal pan-Americanism. Therefore, the main object of this reflection is to understand the content published on the Thought of America as an element for construction of different cooperation between Brazil, the United States and other Latin American nations, during the first years of the 1940. The supplement Thinking of America inaugurated a type of publication that while a statement that allowed the New State and its diplomatic relations opened a space to undertake a cultural attraction among the people, to realize that art and literature could approach “spiritually " American nations.