Serra as letras / São Thomé das letras: designações que enunciam nas relações toponímicas uma forma-sujeito de constituição/identificação do cidadão brasileiro

Abstract

Serra as Letras and its renomination São Thomé das Letras are the toponymies for a well-known city in the state of Minas Gerais which are analyzed in this article. Going through a diversified corpus, me author recomposes the history of the nomination and renomination of the city, showing that the religious imaginary linked to the city is much prior to the decade of 1970, as it is usually said, and is related to a history in which the renomination of the city takes part.