PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Feldman, Luiz
TI  - Da concepção imperial de Gilberto Freyre
AID  - 10.3368/lbr.58.1.145
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 145--178
VI  - 58
IP  - 1
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/58/1/145.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/58/1/145.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2021 Jan 01; 58
AB  - This paper argues that Gilberto Freyre’s “lusotropicalism” was not limited to his support for Portuguese colonialism, but rather encompassed the establishment of a Luso-Brazilian imperial federation spanning Portuguese colonies in the Atlantic, Africa, and Asia. Freyre’s “imperial vision” from 1937 to 1962 is presented in four of its aspects: first, the author’s ambivalence toward the virtues and vices of British primacy; second, his regard of Portuguese colonization as the source of Lusitanian exceptionalism in world affairs; third, his view of the vices and decay of Portugal as an imperial power; fourth, his case for Brazilian participation in the maintenance of a Pax Lusitana within a binational imperial commonwealth.