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One should not, however, think that Gilberto Freyre’s ideas are not subject to, or escape, pertinent comments and questions. The limits and ambivalence surrounding his interpretation of the dynamics of miscegenation and the process of the Portuguese colonization of America, the political and ideological use of Lusotropicalism – as much in Portugal as in Brazil in fact – the supposed absence of “methodological rigour”, if not “scientific [accuracy]”, in his works, and the reach and validity of his analyses beyond the specific and limited world of the sugar-producing society, to mention just the most recurrent topics of his critics, have been, and to a certain extent still are, the subject of a lot of ink since the 1960s at least. At the same time, the appearance in the last few decades of historiographical strands dedicated to culture, to private life and to material life have led to a rediscovery of his works, with readings made from different perspectives that, while still evaluating his contributions and not ignoring evaluations already made about them, shed new light on them. This is all a sign of the vitality of his work and of how his thought is capable of provoking reflections and revelations, both direct and indirect; a sign, above all, of a classical author in the full sense of the word: one who the more we read, the more we are incited to make discoveries.
Works by the author : Casa-grande & senzala, São Paulo, Global, 2003 [1ª ed., Rio de Janeiro, Maia & Schmidt, 1933]; Sobrados e mucambos, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1985 [1ª ed., Rio de Janeiro, Nacional, 1936]; Nordeste, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1937; O mundo que o português criou, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1940; Região e tradição, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1941; Interpretação do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1947; Ingleses no Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1948; Um brasileiro em terras portuguesas, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1953; Aventura e rotina, Rio de Janeiro, 1953; Ordem e progresso, Rio de Janeiro, José Olympio, 1959; O escravo nos anúncios de jornais brasileiros do século XIX, São Paulo, Global, 2010 [1ª ed., Recife, Imprensa Universitária, 1963]; “Como e porque escrevi Casa-grande & senzala” [1968], em GIUCCI, Guillermo, RODRÍGUEZ LARRETA, Enrique e FONSECA, Edson Nery da (coordenadores), Casa-grande & senzala: edição crítica, Madrid, Barcelona, La Habana, Lisboa, Paris, México, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Guatemala, San José: ALLCA XX, 2002; “Raízes brasileiras de um recifense sempre itinerante” e “Menos especialista que generalista”, em Gilberto Freyre na UnB, Brasília: Editora UnB, 1981.
