The Revista Americana as a vehicle of dreams and illusions – representations of pan-americanism in the Revista Americana and A Ilusão Americana, of Eduardo Prado (1909-1919)

Abstract

The paper explores the publication Revista Americana, sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as a space of public opinion and interpretative community carrier of a set of standards which allowed the publication of articles. It released on a non-continuous basis between the years of 1909 and 1919 and became a field to disseminate several aspects of politics, culture and history of Brazil and others south-American republics. It aims understand which were the representations of American continent and peace, and also the restrictions to immigration in the continent, from reading the issues of the corresponding years of the periodic and the book A Ilusão Americana, written by Eduardo Prado. Our conclusions indicate that those intellectuals discussed concerning a peace that they still didn’t know in order to avoid war, in the American continent, that also was not their reality.