White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)

White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or "mixing") in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre's sociology of plantation relations, it interrogates the relation of power to writing and canon formation, and the emergence of an exclusionary, ethnographic discourse that situates itself as the gatekeeper of African "survivals" in decline. Taking Freyre's master/slave paradigm as a point of departure for theorizing a particular form of racial and authorial impostery, this book analyzes the construction of race and raced writing in Brazil in relation to U.S. identity politics and Caribbean "mestizo projects." Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 List of Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 1 Vanishing Primitives: An Introduction......Page 14 2 Poetry and the Plantation: Jorge de Lima’s White Authorship in a Caribbean Perspective......Page 30 3 White Man in the Tropics: Authorship and Atmospheric Blackness in Gilberto Freyre......Page 58 4 Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionism, Erasure, and the Slave’s Narrative......Page 96 5 From the Plantation Manor to the Sociologist’s Study: Democracy, Lusotropicalism, and the Scene of Writing......Page 134 Notes......Page 168 References......Page 180 A......Page 192 B......Page 193 C......Page 195 E......Page 196 F......Page 197 I......Page 198 M......Page 199 N......Page 201 P......Page 202 R......Page 203 S......Page 204 W......Page 206 Z......Page 207 "White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mesticagem (mestizaje, metissage, or "mixing") in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre's sociology of plantation relations, it interrogates the relation of power to writing and canon formation, and the emergence of an exclusionary, ethnographic discourse that situates itself as the gatekeeper of African "survivals" in decline. Taking Freyre's master/slave paradigm as a point of departure for theorizing a particular form of racial and authorial impostery, this book analyzes the construction of race and raced writing in Brazil in relation to U.S. identity politics and Caribbean "mestizo projects.""--BOOK JACKET This book looks at the relationship of literary criticism to the social construction of race in Brazil. Isfahani-Hammond considers Gilberto Freyre's model of master/slave synthesis and examines what "multiculturalism" means after the turn of the century.