Contextualizing history: the origin of the invention of national symbols

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148531351

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Ideology, Nationalism, National symbols

Abstract

National symbols play important socio-political roles in modern nation-states and are deeply embedded in struggles for state power. The main objective of this work is to present a description of the historical context involving the invention of national symbols. The theoretical perspective adopted in this work is the one provided by the modernist paradigm (HOBSBAWM, 1989, 1992; SMITH, 1991). The study demonstrates that national symbols were created as an essential tool for the spread and development of the nationalist ideology and for making the masses of people establish a relation of identification with their nation-states.

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Anderson Alves de Souza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Professor associado na Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) no Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas (DLEM), João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil. Mestre e Doutor em Letras Inglês pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil.

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2018-04-10

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Souza, A. A. de. (2018). Contextualizing history: the origin of the invention of national symbols. Letras, (56), 99–108. https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148531351

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No. 56: (Jun. 2018) - Análise do discurso político: questões de teoria e de prática

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