SALAZARISM AND IDEALIZED TRADITION: IMAGES IN PORTUGAL, REFLEXES IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This paper will discuss how the process of idealized reconstruction of the Portuguese tradition by the authoritarian government that ruled Portugal, having António de Oliveira Salazar as prime minister, is produced. We will also discuss the process of moving this imaginary from Portugal to Brazil and other places through immigration, amongst other things. We will focus on some recurrent aspects of the salazarist discourse that were used as tools for ideological indoctrination of Portuguese society and that in a certain way are still presente in this society, even after the Carnation Revolution. It is possible to perceive that the invention and overvaluation of tradition by the so called New State, as has been pointed out by Eduardo Lourenço, was linked to corporativism, to the uniformization of family models and to the dissemination of the colonialist/imperialist imaginary as means to improve the reiteration of the the regime´s actions through the indoctrinatrion of the population and the obliteration of the violent character of such actions. The Portuguese newspaper Portugal Democrático and Jorge de Sena and Adolfo Casais Monteiro´s poetry became reference points for the study of demonstrations of resistance against the New State in places of exile/immigration.