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"Pedro Meira Monteiro has written an invaluable and very necessary book. Taking Sergio Buarque de Holanda's classic on Brazilian society and culture as a guide, The Other Roots looks into the survival of Buarque's ideas to help illuminate the impasses of Latin American political culture in a densely textured and theoretically acute study." - Florencia Garramuno, University of San Andres"This is a book by a restless, curious, and erudite thinker who has dedicated himself to reflecting on the seminal work and figure of Sergio Buarque de Holanda. The conversation is so elegantly executed, and the results so ringing, that all emerge transformed: Holanda, Meira Monteiro, and the readers themselves." -Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, University of Sao Paulo
"The 2012 English translation of the seminal 1936 study by Sergio Buarque de Holanda Roots of Brazil marked a significant year in the international study of the historiography of Brazil. Meira Monteiro studies the history and impact of the Buarque book, and his book is a valuable companion to Roots." -Choice
"This book is a highly original and rich study of the main topics and contributions of Sergio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil. It promotes an essential task, one that not many people undertake: trying to think about Brazil and its culture through its complex links with different intellectual traditions. This explicit, multicultural approach to Brazil is, in my view, a very necessary move for Brazilian studies today." -Norman Valencia, Claremont McKenna College
"In postmodern fashion, Monteiro captures very well how de Holanda's rendering of Brazilian identity as cordiality dwells in the tension between opposites." -The Review of Politics
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Flora Thomson-DeVeaux is a writer, researcher, and translator, most recently of The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. She studied Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University and earned a PhD in Portuguese and Brazilian studies from Brown University. She lives in Rio de Janeiro
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the North American Edition
- Introduction
- PART I. FAMILIAL POLITICS
- CHAPTER 1. Marking the Starting Point:Readings of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
- CHAPTER 2. A Familial Tragedy (in Hegel's Shadow)
- CHAPTER 3. Rural Roots of the Brazilian Family:Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Gilberto Freyre
- PART II. THE NONEXISTENT AMERICAN
- CHAPTER 4. Wandering Origins:The Impertinence of Belonging
- CHAPTER 5. Seeking America:The Impasses of Liberalism (1)
- CHAPTER 6. "El hombre cordial" and Specular Poetics:The Impasses of Liberalism (2)
- PART III. WORDS AND TIME
- CHAPTER 7. Cordiality and Power:The President and Politics between Film and Essay
- CHAPTER 8. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Words,or Evoking Wittgenstein
- CHAPTER 9. In a Thread of Time:Chico, Sérgio, and Benjamin
- Epilogue. Roots of the Twenty-FirstCentury:Wisnik and the Horizons of the Essay
- Appendix: Excerpts from Roots of Brazil
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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