AS REPRESENTAÇÕES DAS "NAÇÕES" BRASILEIRAS NOS ENREDOS DAS ESCOLAS DE SAMBA DO RIO DE JANEIRO

https://doi.org/10.29327/211653.6.2-4

Abstract

The Carioca carnival has been one of the most important cultural manifestations in Brazil throughout the twentieth century and still remains in the beginning of the twenty first century. All the way through its history, an institution that emerged around the 1920sand 1930s became its protagonist: The Samba school. Direct heirs of the carnival blocks, the ranchos and the great societies, the Samba schools, in an anthropophagic movement, have been devouring and reprocessing elements originated in other cultural manifestations, and have linked them to carnival, whether are them popular or not. Our goal, as pretentious as it is, focus the analysis on the plot, that is not our aim to make a treatise on the history of the plot or its meaning, not even on how it is thought and developed. What we really want to do is to understand how the idea of a Brazilian nation (with all the risks that this idea carries) was represented in the plots of the Samba schools of Rio de Janeiro, and how such representations can help us understand the displacements that such ideas suffered from the 20th to the 21st centuries.