@conference {1419103,
	title = {A Tropical Homer: Reinterpreting Gilberto Freyre{\textquoteright}s Casa-Grande \&amp; Senzala, 1902{\textendash}1940},
	booktitle = {WCFIA Undergraduate Thesis Conference},
	year = {2019},
	publisher = {Weatherhead Center for International Affairs},
	organization = {Weatherhead Center for International Affairs},
	address = {Cambridge, MA},
	abstract = {My thesis seeks to reinterpret Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, and historian Gilberto Freyre{\textquoteright}s magnum opus Casa-Grande \&amp; Senzala (1933) as a national myth rather than as a scientific essay, assessing it as a literary piece that can create a multiracial theory of nationalism for 1930s Brazil. As an intellectual history of this seminal work, it begins with the context of Luso-Brazilian nationalism in the twentieth century, exploring the writings of Brazilian and Portuguese nationalists and their own constructions of both nations. It then proceeds to analyze how Freyre co-opted the logic of these nationalisms to subvert them, using their language of family and genealogy to turn race into a moot category. Freyre{\textquoteright}s mythical narrative theorizes a genealogical nationalism for Brazil, based on the miscegenation prompted by colonial patriarchalism, its unique family structure, and its socioeconomic consequences. Through this interpretation, I also seek to understand the complex internal logic of Casa-Grande \&amp; Senzala, interpreting its use of social science as an accessory element to his mythical account of Brazilian nationality. As of now, the thesis concludes with a tentative third chapter on Freyre{\textquoteright}s political thought, linking his theories about the nation to his writings on the State.},
	author = {Schott Lopes, Arthur}
}
