O autoritarismo em Incidente em Antares reflexões históricas e historiográficas sobre a relação entre literatura e a ditadura civil-militar no Brasil

The Grounds and Implications of Social Order: A Qualitative Study of NAJA Staffs

The sociologist and anthropologist Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), author of The Masters and the Slaves (1933), and historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902-1982), author of Roots of Brazil (1936), are considered some of the main interpreters of Brazilian society, having produced works that continue to impact the understanding of Brazil, according to some researchers, these were the works that "invented Brazil". In this essay, I seek to analyze the impact of the experiences these authors had abroad during the production process of their best-known works. In the case of Gilberto Freyre, I highlight his academic training in the United States, and in the case of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, his free training in Germany. I believe that due to different academic and cultural experiences abroad, Gilberto Freyre and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda developed different interpretations of Brazil. Based on the analysis of their biographies and their best-known works, I seek to highlight how some of the main interpretations of Brazilian society were only possible due to the "intellectual diaspora" in which these authors participated, trying to understand the influences permeating their work.

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Brazilian historigraphical debate was profoundly marked by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The problems of national identity, the occupation of the land, the social organization of Brazil and its civilizatory roots, the cultural exchanges and boundaries in inland parts, the perceptions and forms of appropriation of nature, and other topics covered by the author still echo in contemporary historical research. This article discusses how his main works contribute to environmental history, especially his interpretations of how human societies and the natural environment have affected one another. The role of nature, its metaphors, ideas, or images are the evidence of a history of Brazilian historiography.

The article examines the construction of the memory and bibliography of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, focusing on the organization and destination of his personal archive and library after his death in 1982. The historian’s personal archive and library were sold to the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), which played a central role in preserving his legacy. The text explores the institutional disputes and key figures involved in this process, highlighting the roles of Maria Amélia Buarque de Holanda and Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza in shaping and controlling the historian’s image. The analysis addresses three distinct temporalities in the interpretation of his work: the consolidation of Buarque’s image as an intellectual and essayist in the 1960s; the formalization of his memory after his death in the 1980s; and finally, the critical reassessments of his work from the 1990s onward, when new academics and institutions began to redefine the uses of his archive and his historical significance.

Brazil, land of miscegenation (métisse). An indisputable fact and an unending process. But how should we understand its genesis and how should we, while respecting the requirements of a historiography worth the name, interpret it in terms of our hopes for the future? This is the horizon binding these reflections, which is to be put in perspective in the studies published in this issue of Diogenes.Foregrounding miscegenation, and understanding its origins, has been one of the constant themes among the most distinguished practitioners of Brazilian thought since the 1930s, and has been accepted, indeed demanded, since the 1920s by the artistic and literary movement known as ‘modernism’, of which one of the major figures was the São Paulo writer, Mário de Andrade. Gilberto Freyre (1900–1987), who would now have been a hundred years old, comes particularly to mind, as does Sergio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982). Freyre made history with the publication of his two first works, Casa Grande & senzala [Masters and Slaves] of 1933 and Sobrados e mucambos of 1936. The same year Buarque de Holanda published his Raízes de Brasil [Roots of Brasil]. Motivated by the desire to understand their country, its shaping and – with some kind of concern as to identity – their own origins, both had been led to pave the way for what might be called an ‘open’ sociology, which immediately acquired a strongly anthropological character with Freyre and quickly incorporated increasingly historical aspects with Buarque de Holanda.

Roots of Brazil, the debut book of historian and literary critic Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), is a classic work of Brazilian social critique. Conceptualized in Germany between 1929 and 1930 and published in Rio de Janeiro in 1936, during the Getúlio Vargas government (1930–1945), the book attempts to make sense of the dilemma of modernization in Brazil. Focusing on the crises stemming from urbanization and, in 1888, abolition, Buarque de Holanda analyzes how these factors put in check the personalism that had governed Brazilian sociability since colonial times. In exploring the Iberian roots of the mentality of the Portuguese colonizers, as well as concepts such as the “adventurer” and the “cordial man,” the book reveals the contentious formation of democratic public space in Brazil. The limits of liberalism, the seduction of totalitarianism, the legacy of slavery, and new forms of labor are some of the themes explored in Roots of Brazil. Still central to the Brazilian imagination today, the book has lent itself to a diversity of conservative and radical readings, including those of the author himself, who revised it substantially and never felt fully satisfied with his initial foray into topics that would captivate him throughout his academic career.

This research investigates the preconditions for the Olympics-led process of urban transformation and change of East London. The pre-conditions are interpreted in terms of discourse (the economic, political, media, and legal discourse); which is conceived as reflecting and being reflected in the social, urban, economic and institutional order of the city. The aims of the work are, therefore, to understand: a) how such discourse is construed; b) how the complex of worldviews, ideologies, ideas, beliefs and interests that discourse expresses becomes constructed in the actual urban, social, economic and institutional order of the city; c) how discourse works in enacting and shaping processes of urban transformation and change in East London – and London as a whole. According to the official discourse, the transformation of East London into a site for tourism, shopping, leisure and lifestyle (which is aimed at attracting corporate investments) is the only possible way to enact processes of economic and social growth of ‘derelict’ urban areas. As it answers the requirements of global capital, which is regarded as an impersonal force, such model of urban renewal is represented as unquestionable. By exploring the possibility of a discourse theory of urban transformation and change (which emphasises the role of social-political action) and employing Critical Discourse Analysis as a methodological framework, the research demonstrates that the corporate-led transformation of East London is instead a social construction. In other words, it relies on the vision of the city of specific social actors. Such vision (which expresses sets of worldviews, ideologies, ideas, beliefs and interests) shapes the economic, political, media a d legal discourse; and is reflected at the same time in the urban form and functions, social order, economic organisation and institutional structure of the city.

The place of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) in ensuring and sustaining social order in any country has been long established especially with the understanding that norms, rules, and laws act as social adhesives for society. However, some countries in the developing world seem to be grappling with significant challenges associated with criminal justice delivery as a consequence of the real and perceived inefficiency of the CJS in dealing with deviant issues. This to a large extent tend to undermine social order and by extension the collective conscience of the people. In Nigeria, criminal justice issues have attracted strong theoretical and practical affronts with the dominant perspective being that the poor are often denied justice in favour of the rich with adverse implications for social order. As a result, this paper examined the issue of the CJS in order to show how this affects social order in Nigeria. The paper adopts the content analysis method for data gathering and the qualitative approach to data analysis. Also, the Marxist Political Economy perspective is adopted as the theoretical framework as well as a complementary method of analysis. The paper submits that in a society like Nigeria where criminal justice is significantly defined by the politics of corruption, social order will be largely elusive and in its place, there will be an obvious consistency in criminal activities in the country. The paper recommends among others that the government should strengthen the criminal justice system and provide an enabling environment for it to function effectively if social order is to be achieved in Nigeria.

The idea for this work came from the famous phrase of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, in Raízes do Brasil: “Democracy in Brazil has always been an unfortunate misunderstanding.” For the author, inspired by the Weberian ideal types and with a comparative view, Brazil with his cordial man – one who acts more by heart than by reason – and with the predominance of the private space on the public one did not appear as a receptive soil to equal values of democracy. The text suggests that the institutionalization of democratic rules relativizes the weight of culture, without changing its traces in the same rhythm of the rule changes. Brazil, with all the problems arising from an unequal and hierarchical society, is currently located among the more consolidated democracies in Latin America, among those that interact more and which have a willingness to dialogue.

The article investigates the circumstances leading to Brazil being awarded the first prize at the XIV International Conference on Demography and Hygiene, held in Berlin in 1907. An examination of the unpublished correspondence between Henrique da Rocha Lima and Oswaldo Cruz prior to the conference/exhibition reveals the peculiarities of a Brazilian-style event, where the outcome seems to be determined by haphazard incidents rather than by meticulously planned strategies. Their letters can also be read as a narrative celebrating individual qualities, as they attribute the victory in Berlin much more to Rocha Lima's than Oswaldo Cruz's personal merits. In light of the Raízes do Brasil, a classic by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, this article also addresses the issue regarding the dispute between the Iberian and Anglo-Saxon worlds over the Brazilian victory.

This paper examines the existing Brazilian Portuguese translations of Thomas Hardy's novels, drawing attention to the specific problem of dialect translation, and it also examines the general reception of Hardy's works, as exhibited in articles, prefaces, translators' notes, as well as in the translations themselves. In Brazil, Hardy started being translated in the 1940s, a period in which translation and the book industry was booming in the country because of a shortage of production in Europe during the wars. Jude and The Well‐Beloved were translated in this decade, and Tess was translated in the 1960s. There was then a gap until 2003, when a new translation of The Well‐Beloved was published. But before all that, in the 1920s, Thomas Hardy was read by a rising Brazilian intellectual, Gilberto Freyre, who became interested in how Hardy combined the regional and the universal in his works so as to expand their boundaries and reinvent the regionalist genre. In contrast, Freyre's contemporary, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, sought in Hardy the tragic and the modern, associating these features with the universal appeal of Hardy's works and reflecting on their afterlife. With regard to the translation of dialect, this paper suggests that the earlier translators' strategies were closely connected to the view at the time of what constituted appropriate literary language, whereas the different perceptions of Hardy seem to struggle to fit his works into categories that related to domestic literary interests.

Malcolm K. McNee's The Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Poetry and Art presents a sophisticated and nuanced inquiry into the representational strategies engaged by contemporary Brazilian artists and poets to promote dialogue about the relations between people and environments at various scales. The introduction and first chapter draw Brazilian artists' and intellectuals' ecological aesthetics into tension with recent trends in North American ecocriticism, particularly as they relate to and problematize the nationalistic “paradise motif” critiqued by Brazilian historian Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. In this way, McNee generates a productive dialogue between Brazilian thought on the lived experience of local and regional environments and the social/symbolic construction of nature and recent North American proposals about environmental representation, such as Amanda Boetzkes's reappraisal of earth art, James Engelhardt's ecopoetics, and Timothy Morton's “ambient poetics.” McNee argues for an expanded definition of environmental activism, which he relates not only to the political struggle for environmental justice, but also to the search for subjectivities that deconstruct the foundational modern human/nature binary.

The founding of the first universities in the first decades of the 20th century in Brazil emerged from a context of public education reforms and expansion that modified the relationship between intellectuals and the public sphere in Brazil. The representation of national pasts was the object of prolific public debate in the social sciences and literature and fine arts through social and historical essays, pushed mostly from the 1920’s to the 1950’s, such as Gilberto Freyre’s, The Master and the Slaves (Casa Grande e Senzala, 1936) and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Roots of Brazil (Raízes do Brasil, 1936). Just after the 1950s, universities expanded nationally, and new resources were available for academic and scientific production, such as libraries, archives, scientific journals, and funding agencies (namely CNPQ, CAPES and FAPESP). In the field of history, these effects would have a greater impact in the 1960s and 1970s with the consolidation of a National Association of History, the debate over curricula and required content, and the systematization of graduate programs (thanks to the University Reform of 1968, during the military dictatorship). Theses, dissertations, and monographs gradually gained ground as long social essays lost their prestige, seen as not befitting the standards of disciplinary historiography as defined in the graduate programs such as a wider empirical ground and more accurate time frames and scopes. Through their writing in more specialized formats, which moved away from essays and looked into the great Brazilian historical problems, historians played an important role in the resistance against the authoritarian regime (1964–1985) and, above all, contributed to a debate on the role of silenced minorities regarding redemocratization.

ABSTRACTTaking as its point of departure Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s theorising of O homem cordial (cordial man) and Gilberto Freyre’s foundational text Casa-grande & senzala (The Masters and the Slaves), this article will present a reading of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s second feature film Aquarius (2016) as a contemporary revision of the well-worn myths of intimacy and cordiality in Brazilian culture. It will focus on the complex relationship between maids and mistresses in Brazilian, and by extension, South American cultural history, and in particular the points at which unequal power relationships, superficially cordial and intimate, are dramatically undone.

The paper consists of a full transcription of an unpublished document written by the young Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, preceded by a brief comment. It was published almost 90 years ago in the inaugural edition of the Hierarchia magazine in August 1931, due to the promulgation of the Decree no.19.941/1931 by the Provisional Government (1930-1934), resulting from a Catholic ecclesiastical elite’s political articulation in the First Brazilian Republic (1889-1930). This Decree regulated religious teaching in the elementary, secondary and higher courses. Not only the document in its entirety but also a large part of the references mentioned here come to light for the first time.