The two buildings, adjacent to each other, were simultaneously antagonistic and complementary, as with the masters and slaves that inhabited them.Īs was to be expected, a beautiful commemorative edition was published to celebrate the event. In Freyre’s view, the master’s house and the slave quarters form an essential duality, which is not only the foundation of private social relations amongst Brazilians but also of the country’s political culture. The work has received numerous critiques and revisions in the decades after it was first published, but remains our most influential sociological essay and, above all, the most lasting of interpretations of Brazilian society. In December 2013, Gilberto Freyre’s classic book Casa-Grande & Senzala (The Masters & the Slaves) turned 80. Young robbery suspect at Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, 2014, Yvonne Bezerra de Mello The result of these shifts is that the slave quarters are returning, in other even more violent images.Ĭasa-grande & senzala (2013, Editora Global) Intrigued by the change, the history professor MAURICIO LISSOVSKY shows how the old slave quarters have lost their meaning of oppression and cruelty to become a place of enjoyment. Isfahani-Hammond argues that without a critical revisiting of slavery and its various incarnations throughout the Americas, it is impossible to understand and rethink race relations in today's world.The new Brazilian edition of Gilberto Freyre’s classic book removed the slave quarters and the black slaves from its cover. These texts are examined with the goal of locating the origins of the different notions of race and racial orders that have arisen throughout the Americas. Through reading texts on slavery and its legacy from these countries, the volume addresses the eroticization of the plantation economy, various formations of the master/slave dialectic as it has emerged in different national contexts, the plantation as metaphor, and the relationship between texts that use cultural vs biological narratives of mestizaje (being interracial). The scope of the study is unprecedented - the book ties together the entire 'Black Atlantic', including the French and Spanish Caribbean, the US, and Brazil. The chapters examine the relationship of slavery and master/slave relations to nationalist projects throughout the Americas - the ways in which a history of slavery and its abolition has shaped a nation's identity and race relations within that nation. This collection presents a comparative study of the impact of slavery on the literary and cultural imagination of the Americas, and also on the impact of writing on slavery on the social legacies of slavery's history.
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