A reverence for Meta-history and Hayden White: the past as ironic and liberal satire in Sérgio Buarque de Holanda

Authors

  • Julio Bentivoglio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/artc-v20-n37-2018-47239

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the poetics and the historiographical style in Raízes do Brasil, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s classic work, particularly in the chapter “Trabalho & aventura” (Work & adventure), in the light of the tropology Hayden White proposes in his Meta-history. It discusses the satirical, liberal, and ironic accent in Holanda´s narrative in its historical representation of the Brazilian colonial past. This article is a part of a wider project looking at the Brazilian historical imagination in the 1930s and 1940s, which has already produced a first essay about Caio Prado Júnior, published in the Storia della Storiografia journal in 2015.

keywords: Brazilian historiography; Sérgio Buarque de Holanda; Meta-history.

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Author Biography

Julio Bentivoglio

Doutor em História Econômica pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professor do Departamento de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Ufes). Co-organizador, entre outros livros, de Do passado histórico ao passado prático: 40 anos de Meta-história. Serra: Milfontes, 2017.

Published

2018-12-12

How to Cite

Bentivoglio, J. (2018). A reverence for Meta-history and Hayden White: the past as ironic and liberal satire in Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. ArtCultura, 20(37), 51–65. https://doi.org/10.14393/artc-v20-n37-2018-47239

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Minidossiê Hayden White: reflexões contemporâneas