Ficção, ciência, história e a invenção da Brasilidade Sertaneja

Resumen

At the begining of the century, the national issue was exaustively debated and establishing the national identity was a problem for the intellectuals. Among the plans created to complete this blank, the idea that Brazil was born in the sertão was an effecective myth. This article intends to shed some lights on this phenomenom.