Since the 18th century the construction of Brazil has been an ever-present
theme in Brazilian literature. In different but always celebratory ways, Santa
Rita Durão, Alencar and Mário de Andrade have dealt with racial and cultural
miscegenation. In the beginning of the 21st century descendants of immigrants
bring a new contribution to these earlier approaches. Among them. Milton
Hatoum rethinks Brazilian history through his understanding of hybridism as a
form of excessiveness counteracting a sense of the nation as a uniform totality.
Since the 18th century the construction of Brazil has been an ever-present
theme in Brazilian literature. In different but always celebratory ways, Santa
Rita Durão, Alencar and Mário de Andrade have dealt with racial and cultural
miscegenation. In the beginning of the 21st century descendants of immigrants
bring a new contribution to these earlier approaches. Among them. Milton
Hatoum rethinks Brazilian history through his understanding of hybridism as a
form of excessiveness counteracting a sense of the nation as a uniform totality.
