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Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing

Miranda, Rui

Authors

RUI MIRANDA RUI.MIRANDA@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor



Abstract

This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistice devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras portuguesas (1953). With a view to questioning the foundations as well as to reexamining the conditions of possibility of a number of national and transnational commonplaces, policies and discourses which, knowingly or unknowingly, are inspired or shaped by Freyre’s “lusotropicalism,” it will break down the use of metaphors, morpholinguistic tropes, and the simile carrying Freyre’s self-fashioning as a modern Luís de Camões. Freyre’s observations on the then Portuguese colonies are of importance only insofar as they help build up his own projection of a “mundo português” and a lusotropical “family” led by Brazil, as he disingenuously acquiesces that his journey (sponsored by the Portuguese Estado Novo) acquires a “significado quase político”.

Citation

Miranda, R. (2021). Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing. Luso-Brazilian Review, 58(1), 179-204

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 22, 2021
Online Publication Date Jul 6, 2021
Publication Date 2021
Deposit Date Feb 11, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Luso-Brazilian Review
Print ISSN 0024-7413
Electronic ISSN 1548-9957
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 58
Issue 1
Pages 179-204
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5316957
Publisher URL https://muse.jhu.edu/article/797304