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The present study, based on Bibliographic Review and Text Analysis, presents a brief analysis of Brazilianness in Maria Bethânia's music from the historical record of Brasileirinho (Quitanda/Biscoito Fino, 2003-2004). Themes such as the cultural anthropophagy and the relationship between music and the cultural identity of the performer since its appearance in the Brazilian music scene in 1965 are proposed. As a theoretical contribution, the concept of identity, studies on Anthropophagy stand out (ANDRADE, 2017), the aesthetics and language of Maria Bethânia's musical work, in addition to the interpretative analysis of the texts. The intention is to present a debate on the construction of the National Identity based on the featured work, according to the precepts of Brazilian modernist authors, creators of the Week of Modern Art (1922). The three great matrixes of national identity - African, Indigenous and European - form the horizon for the analysis of songs, arrangements, poems, pictures and interpretations recorded in the work, in order to contribute to the reflection on cultural relations, hybridism (CANCLINI, 2010 ), in critical evaluation of European standards, in force in Brazilian society, which, consequently, marginalizes the traditional and native identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Romantic and modernist Brazilian literature tried to tackle the issue of our nationality as a means of self-recognition, a search for national identity. With the rise of post-modernism and especially of cultural studies, the question of national identity and of the representation of the nation is back again; historians, social scientists and literary and visual arts critics have been discussing the theme and we, therefore, see analysis of novels, short stories, poems, paintings, installations, movies and TV series, among others, which deal with how these media try to represent the nation - or if it is still possible to speak in a totalizing way about narratives of the nation and of national identity. Nonetheless, this matter does not seem so compelling in theatre studies. Although there are plays which attempt to narrate a space and its society, whether it be the nation or the city - the latter sometimes representative of an idea of nation -, the debate on what this idea of nation and national identity are is, in theatre studies, limited. Thus, this article aims at analyzing how the nation was imagined and the understanding of national identity in the play BR3, signed by Bernardo Carvalho and staged by the company Teatro da Vertigem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze how the writer José Pereira da Graça Aranha represented the Brazilian national identity in the set of essays The aesthetics of life, published in 1921. José Pereira da Graça Aranha (1868-1931), born in São Luís do Maranhão, Brazilian writer and diplomat, graduated in Law from the Recife Law School. Graça Aranha was concerned with defining what it meant to be Brazilian. In an attempt to address this issue, he elaborated to explain what constituted the Brazilian being and the reasons for having such characteristics. He publicized his projects through publications, which included texts such as essays, novels, among others. The Aesthetic work of life is formed by a set of essays, among which Aranha exposes her philosophical conceptions of the world, presenting the view that each people has its own characteristic that would form the soul of the race. For Aranha, each nation would integrate the universal whole through its uniqueness. In this work the author explains how this whole would be formed and how Brazil could find its characteristic to integrate it, defending the conservation of Portuguese characteristics and the political union of Brazil and Portugal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sports mega-events are periods when the spirit of nationalism is high, leading people to buy products to express support for their country in the competition. The purpose of this correlational study is to verify which variables influence the impulse buying behavior of merchandise. 441 Brazilians participated in the study (264 women and 177 men, Mage = 34.56. SD = 15.89 years). Data collection was carried out through an online questionnaire (SurveyMonkey platform), which was shared through Facebook, WhatsApp, and email lists during the FIFA World Cup 2018. The results showed that men are more fanatic about the cup and tend to become more involved in the event. A sequential mediation model, applied to both sexes, revealed that the stronger the national identity, the greater the fanaticism, which leads to greater involvement, resulting in impulse buying of merchandise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The broadening of liberal economic policies will trigger the democratization of China. This argument repeated in studies finds their expectations thwarted daily by news of the intensification of the power of the Communist Party of China over the society. The paper analyzes the determination of the national identity based on national humiliation as a strategy to disseminate the legitimacy of the Chinese political elite from a perception of nationalism as essential for maintaining the stability of the regime. It studies the formation of national identity, the constitution of groups within the political elite of China, and the elaboration of the Comprehensive National Power concept. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently there is a great deal of questioning of Ireland's alleged Celtic identity, especially with the great numbers of immigrants arriving in the country. As geneticists and archaeologists deny the myths of a true Celtic origin, the idea of identity as social construction comes out strengthened from this discussion. This article aims to deal with the nationalist movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Ireland and its influence on the establishment of the Free State in 1921 and subsequently of the Republic of Ireland in 1922. In order to illustrate the construction of the Celtic narrative in the invention of the Irish nation, some brief passages are presented from the book Mother Ireland (1976), written by the contemporary Irish writer Edna O'Brien. In it, the author makes use of parody to highlight the construct character of the nationalist discourses that created a Celtic identity for Ireland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout our history, the idea of Brazil has been the subject of several elaborations, in general combining political and aesthetic aspects. However, at the turn of the third millennium this process has taken a new shape. Appropriations and reworkings of the idea of Brazil multiplied. The initiatives were everywhere, reaching different sectors of cultural and artistic production, the media and especially the market. The objective of this paper is to present the results of a documentary research project on the topic conducted in the course of the 2000s, which indicate two basic changes in comparison to the movements in the 20th century: the displacement of political interest to marketing, as well as of the emphasis on national identity to cultural diversity. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of the slide of identity construction from the sphere of politics to consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article intends to analyze the process of formation of the national identity of Brazil. A continuous and multifaceted process is verified, as a consequence of the influences and inclusions of many variables - political, economical, cultural and social - that have been altered and that are still changing today, because of the time passage and the birth of new ideologies, or even the return or continuation of old ones. Therefore, the process of the development of an identity is presented, that today results on the emphasis of the South-American character of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]