FRANÇA-BRASIL: ELEMENTOS PARA UMA RELAÇÃO

Abstract

This paper analyses the French presence in Brazilian Literature and Culture, from the romanticism with its indianism à la Chateaubriand to the Modernism with Oswald de Andrade and Tarsila do Amaral. As in any contact between different peoples, the dialogue Brazil-France has its weak and strong times; in the last one, we can include two important “French missions”, the 1816’s one and the 1934’s one. There is a reflexion on the role of teaching/learning French in Brazil as well as on the issue of French language in the colonial context, through some ideas developed by Derrida and Glissant.