Gilberto Freyre The Poetic Optics of His Lusotropicalist Imagination
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Even though Gilberto Freyre is a renowned scholar of miscegenation theory, not much is known about his poetry. His collection Poesia Reunida (1980) [Collected Poetry], provides a rare glimpse of the sociologist as he addresses themes of women, family, slavery, and nostalgia.[i] Embodying Lusotropicalism, Poesia Reunida embraces multiracial ideology while maintaining a laissez-faire attitude toward the colonized Amerindian and enslaved African populations. Freyre deploys an imagistic vision to describe his memories of landscapes and to characterize Brazilian identity. Drawing upon T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and Manuel Bandeira, this study offers a portrait of the sociologist as a poet of substance and describes how he struggles to transcend the limits of his miscegenation theories.
[i] The first effort to collect Gilberto Freyre’s poems was Talvez Poesia,which brought together his collections and some individual poems, such as Brasiliana Litoral e Sertão, Encanta-Moça e Outros Encantamentos, Agôsto Azul e Outros Poemas Europeus, and África & Ásia, among others.
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