Tropics and frontier in the writing of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

Bibliographic Data

ID3074031
AuthorsLuiz Feldman (0000-0001-8514-270X, Embaixada do Brasil no México, México, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume30
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistória Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0104-59702023000100008en
SCIELO_PIDS0104-59702023000100500
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

From the mid-1930s, with Raízes do Brasil , to the mid-1960s, with O extremo Oeste , Sérgio Buarque de Holanda undergoes a significant change in his understanding of Brazilian space. Initially, in a close dialogue with Gilberto Freyre, the author conceives the country drawing on the notion of the tropics, a fluid space where Portugal could be recreated through the bond with the ocean. In Monções and Caminhos e fronteiras , the historian develops a deliberately opposed vision, conceiving the country from the notion of frontier, a rough space where a foreigner's adaptability reaches its limit. In this phase, Jaime Cortesão and his thesis of Brazil-island became an invariable target of criticism

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Criticism · Frontier · Literature · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy · Sociology and Education in Brazil

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