When Anatole France and Gilberto Freyre read Pierre Loti
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i36p178-193Keywords:
Orientalism, French litertature, Coloniality, SexismAbstract
What brings Anatole France and Gilberto Freyre together? In addition to being writers, both were readers of the French novelist Pierre Loti. However, these are not all of their similarities. In this article, I analyze the influence of Orientalism in Pierre Loti’s ficcional prose on the intellectual production of Gilberto Freyre and the literary criticism of Anatole France. I show how the orientalist discourse reproduced by the three authors in different contexts (literary, analytical and sociological) involves the technology of racialization and gender hierarchization. To this end, I base my work on the theoretical contribution of studies by Said (2007), Yeğenoğlu (1998), Segato (2018, 2021) and Castro-Gómez (2019) on Orientalism and technologies of gender and racialization.
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