Introduction — “ There is no Brazil ” : A Poet ’ s Writing of Cultural History 1
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A paradox that should not be resolved In one of his most intriguing poems, Carlos Drummond de Andrade provides inspiration for this current volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies—Brazil 2001: A Revisionary History of Brazilian Literature and Culture. The poem, called “Hino Nacional,” is a paradoxical reconstruction of variegated efforts aimed at the building of the nation. In the final lines of the poem, however, it is “Brazil”—as an impossible Kantian thing-in-itself — that emerges and refuses all attempts to grasp its essence:
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