National language and post-colonial literature in Brazil

Portuguese Linguistic Colonisation and Language Policy: Brazil and Mozambique, Between Diversity, Inequality and Differences

“…As nostalgia or the establishment of something new? (Mariani and Jobim, 2006). In these speeches, the ideologues of Independence, those that belonged to the elite, constructed meanings to create a nationalism that relied on being signified in what was the language of the coloniser.…”