First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a
European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that
was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and
consequences of this development. In The Other Roots, Pedro Meira
Monteiro contends that Roots of Brazil is an essential work for
understanding Brazil and the current impasses of politics in Latin
America. Meira Monteiro demonstrates that the ideas expressed in
Roots of Brazil have taken on new forms and helped to construct
some of the most lasting images of the country, such as the
"cordial man," a central concept that expresses the Ibero-American
cultural and political experience and constantly wavers between
liberalism's claims to impersonality and deeply ingrained forms of
personalism. Meira Monteiro examines in particular how "cordiality"
reveals the everlasting conflation of the public and the private
spheres in Brazil. Despite its ambivalent relationship to liberal
democracy, Roots of Brazil may be seen as part of a Latin
Americanist assertion of a shared continental experience, which
today might extend to the idea of solidarity across the so-called
Global South. Taking its cue from Buarque de Holanda, The Other
Roots investigates the reasons why national discourses invariably
come up short, and shows identity to be a poetic and political
tool, revealing that any collectivity ultimately remains intact
thanks to the multiple discourses that sustain it in fragile,
problematic, and fascinating equilibrium.
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