B Ashcroft, G Griffiths and H Tiffin (eds), The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, London: Routledge, 1995, ‘Preface’, pp xv, xvi.ġ3. Edward Said, ‘Preface’, Orientalism, New York: Vintage Books, 2003, p xxix Judith Revel, Dictionnaire Foucault, Paris: Ellipses, 2008, pp 41, 132.ġ2. Sousa Santos, ‘Entre Próspero e Caliban’, p 14.ġ1. João VI no Brasil, 1808–1821, Rio de Janeiro: José Olympio, n.d., pp 34, 548, 364 Manuel Bonfim, O Brasil (1935), São Paulo: Biblioteca Pedagógica Brasileira, n.d., p 25 Alberto Torres, O Problema Nacional Brasileiro, São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional, 1938, p 100.ġ0. ‘If there were more land, we would be there’ had been the motto of those heroic navigators.ĩ. The discovery of Brazil in 1500 was Portugal's last great achievement in the colonial venture of expansion overseas. I am much indebted to Boaventura de Sousa Santos's discussion of Portuguese colonialism, especially in his already mentioned text.Ĩ. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, ‘Entre Próspero e Caliban-Colonialismo, Pós-Colonialismo e Interidentidade’, in Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda (ed), Cultura e Desenvolvimento, Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano Editora, 2004, pp 20–33.

Mignolo, Histórias Locais/Projetos Globais, p 256.ħ. In this text, all translations into English are mine, except when stated otherwise.ĥ. Néstor García Canclini, Culturas Híbridas: Estratégias para Entrar e Sair da Modernidade, São Paulo: EdUSP, 2000, pp 67–68. Brasilien ein Land der Zukunft is Stefan Zweig's original title of his book about Brazil.Ĥ. Sergio Buarque de Holanda's best-known book, Raízes do Brasil, has been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, German and Japanese. Gilberto Freyre, Casa-Grande & Senzala-1933–1973: Formação da Família Brasileira sob o Regime da Economia Patriarcal, Samuel Putnam (trans), The Master and the Slaves ( A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization), 3rd edn, New York: Alfred Knopf, 1964. (Original title: Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking).ģ. Walter Mignolo, Histórias Locais/Projetos Globais Colonialidade, Saberes Subalternos e Pensamento Liminar, Solange Ribeiro de Oliveira (trans), Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2003. I want to thank my friend, Professor John Thew, for his invaluable help.Ģ.

O povo brasileiro by Darcy Ribeiro