A PÁTRIA - CONTROVERSY AS THE DYNAMISM OF A CAMPAIGN FOR “LATIN FRATERNITY” AND RAPPROCHEMENT BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL

Founded on September 14, 1920, but nurtured by João do Rio since 1919, when the Jacobin campaigns were intensifying in Brazil, A Pátria, which was initially conceived as Pátria luso-brasileira, a daily to be published simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic, remained, in Brazil, in the words of its editor, the only protest against the Lusophobic wave. And it would be with a method no different from that with which the artist practiced his literature - the production of the shocking - in a format capable of provoking controversy and transposing into the political sphere the sensationalism that had long surrounded criminal news that João do Rio would constitute his daily. The article, addressing the newspaper as a stage space, particularly in its discursive and performative aesthetics, explores how the campaign that culminated against the mandatory nationalization of Póvoa residents allowed him to wage a daily political struggle for Latin fraternity and rapprochement between Portugal and Brazil.

KEYWORDS:
Latin Brotherhood; Lusophilia; Immigration; Nationalization; Political Sensationalism