The PostModern Debate: Brazilian Force Fields – An introductory overview (working paper).

The article focuses on the debate on postmodernity in Brazil. Postmodernity has entered the intellectual force field in Brazil in the early 1980s. Notions such as the postmodern, postmodernity and postmodernism answered the need to rethink the dominant categories of local cultural historiography during a time of transition from military dictatorship to a democratic regime. A major shift in the fields of ideology and political was taking place. As the debate unfolded, it was the liberal in politics but conservative in culture who rejected the validity of the issues brought up by postmodern critique.