Meu nome é Brasil – as figuras do homem cordial e do bestializado em canções de Tom Zé

Abstract

This paper´s goal is to analyze some Tom Zé´s songs from which it is intended to show in what way the Brazilian composer represents and interprets the national identity. Due to this theme´s amplitude and complexity, it is necessary a previous study of nation and identity from the analysis of Ernest Renan, Benedict Anderson, Homi K. Bhabha e Stuart Hall. As for the Brazilian identity, whose studies are also vast and complex, the Cordial and Bestial Man´s figures are privileged in this paper, they are grounded by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda e José Murilo de Carvalho, respectively, besides the sociologist Richard Sennett´s work that debates the relations between public and private spheres, fundamental for the critical reading developed here. Lastly, it is searched to show how Tom Zé´s reading about Brazil and Brazilians, present in his songs, dialogs with the existing theory about the subject at the same time that surpasses it, revealing an own reading of Brazil.