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Gilberto Freyre
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Gilberto Freyre
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Gilberto Freyre
List of Abbreviations. Preface and Acknowledgements. The Importance Of Being Gilberto. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Masters and Slaves. A Public Intellectual. Empire and Republic. The Social Theorist. Gilberto Our Contemporary. Chronology. Notes. Further Reading. Index.
Gilberto Freyre
A coletânea, organizada pela crítica de arte Clarissa Diniz e pela educadora Gleyce Heitor, apresenta ao leitor uma diferente faceta do autor de 'Casa Grande & Senzala', a de um atuante crítico de arte. Os textos reunidos no livro foram publicados em diversos jornais e revistas, especialmente entre as décadas de 1920 e 1980. O 5o volume da Coleção 'Pensamento Crítico', traz comentários de Gilberto Freyre que mostram a posição do sociólogo a favor da expansão da concepção estética e suas observações que vão além dos limites das tradicionais perspectivas sobre a arte. Diversas manifestações culturais como a moda, a culinária e a arquitetura, e muitas outras, são englobadas no livro, bem como as sugestões do escritor para a contextualização e a crítica da arte, para a sociologia da arte e para a própria produção artística.
The Gilberto Freyre Reader
Essays on Brazil, race, childhood, slavery, sociology, literature, art, and travel as well as autobiographical writings.
Gilberto Freire
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The Mystery of Samba
Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, samba and the famous pre-Lenten carnival of which it is the centerpiece seem to showcase the country’s African heritage. Within Brazil, however, samba symbolizes the racial and cultural mixture that, since the 1930s, most Brazilians have come to believe defines their unique national identity. But how did Brazil become “the Kingdom of Samba” only a few decades after abolishing slavery in 1888? Typically, samba is represented as having changed spontaneously, mysteriously, from a “repressed” music of the marginal and impoverished to a national symbol cherished by all Brazilians. Here, however, Hermano Vianna shows that the nationalization of samba actually rested on a long history of relations between different social groups — poor and rich, weak and powerful — often working at cross-purposes to one another. A fascinating exploration of the “invention of tradition,” The Mystery of Samba is an excellent introduction to Brazil’s ongoing conversation on race, popular culture, and national identity.
Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.
