The article analyzes the Amazon in the social thought of Brazilian Estado Novo (1937-1945), when events and governmental projects as the "Marcha para o Oeste" and the "Discurso do rio Amazonas" represented more attention of central government to the region. Since 1941, articles about the Amazon were published in the journal "Cultura Política", issued by the Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda (Department of Press and Publicity), one of the principal means of publicizing the social thought of Estado Novo. Concepts of Euclides da Cunha, Alberto Rangel, and Alfredo Ladislau about climate, race and civilization were suitable for the production of these texts with the aim of building political ideas by the State. Thus, our analysis highlight continuities and discontinuities between the literary production of the Brazilian First Republic and the official ideas formulated by the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas.
Getúlio Vargas; Estado Novo; Cultura Política; Amazon