White Negritude : Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Vanishing Primitives: An Introduction 1(16) Poetry and the Plantation: Jorge de Lima's White Authorship in a Caribbean Perspective 17(28) White Man in the Tropics: Authorship and Atmospheric Blackness in Gilberto Freyre 45(38) Joaquim Nabuco: Abolitionism, Erasure, and the Slave's Narrative 83(38) From the Plantation Manor to the Sociologist's Study: Democracy, Lusotropicalism, and the Scene of Writing 121(34) Notes 155(12) References 167(12) Index 179