Raizes de Gilberto Freyre

In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 1-20

Abstract

The centenary in 2000 of Gilberto Freyre's birth occasioned a number of retrospectives on his place in Brazil's history. This article focuses on Freyre up to 1933, the year in which Casa Grande & Senzala was published. Emphasis is given to such formative influences as his undergraduate study at Baylor U, his graduate study at Columbia U, & his subsequent travels in Europe. In these years, Freyre rejected an invitation to stay in the US & strengthened his resolve to return to Brazil & make his career as a writer. The theme he soon adopted was Brazil's viability as a modern nation, notwithstanding its supposed defects of race & climate. Adapted from the source document.