As revistas Travel in Brazil, Panorama e Atlântico: escritores e os regimes do estado novo brasileiro e do português (1941-1945)

Abstract

This thesis is the result of the research project entitled "Comparative study between the magazines Travel in Brazil, Panorama and Atlântico, in their editions between 1941 and 1945: the expression of tensions between authors and policies for tourism and culture during the Brazilian and Portuguese Estado Novo", which was approved with a Productivity Grant (PQ2) by CNPq for the three-year period from 2022 to 2025, and was also developed as a postdoctoral project at the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of São Paulo (IEB-USP), between August 2022 and October 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marcos Antonio Moraes. The thesis studied the magazine Travel in Brazil, published by the Department of Press and Propaganda (DIP) between 1941 and 1942; Panorama: a Portuguese art and tourism magazine, published between 1941 and 1973, initially by the National Propaganda Secretariat (SPN), and Atlântico: a Portuguese-Brazilian magazine, published jointly by SPN and, initially, by DIP, between 1942 and 1950, as a result of the Luso-Brazilian Cultural Agreement. Based on a previous study of themes such as imagined communities and nationalism (Anderson, 2021), invented traditions (Hobsbawm; Ranger, 2022), places of memory, anthropological places and non-places (Augé, 1994), as well as cultural and tourism policies and approaches to intellectuals from the Brazilian and Portuguese Estado Novo, the period from 1941 to 1945 was chosen to select a set of articles published in these magazines. The aim was to analyse how the verbal texts and illustrative images expressed the ideologies of nationalism, art, tourism and culture in general of the Vargas and Salazar regimes, and how these ideologies related to, or in some cases, how they conflicted with, the points of view of the authors who wrote for these magazines. The comparative analyses focused on the authors' literary styles and the relationship between the illustrations and the verbal texts. The aim was also to identify similarities and differences between the policies for culture and tourism implemented by the dictatorial regimes in Brazil and Portugal. With regard to the corpora, it should be noted that Panorama and Atlântico are available online at the Hemeroteca Municipal de Lisboa website; as for Travel in Brazil, there are printed copies at the IEB-USP library and at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. The aim was to emphasise the importance of magazines as documents that reveal conceptions of Brazilianness and Portugueseness.