2021-04

PER UN LEXICON POLITOLOGICO LATINOAMERICANO DE-COLONIALE: O HOMEM CORDIAL, ALTER EGO DELL’HOMBRE CORDIAL

Abstract The 2016 critical edition of Raízes do Brasil, recomposing the corpus of the five editions published by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda between 1936 and 1969, makes it clear how the initial positive connotation of the metaphor o homem cordial has changed into a negative one. The first translations - into Italian (1954) and into Spanish-American (1955) - appeared when the re-conceptualization process of the metaphor was not yet complete. Once concluded, and when the Buarquian metaphor had already established itself in the Portuguese language as a polyrematic, both languages would have a se...

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