Escuta o gazal que fiz,
Darling, em louvor de Hafiz.
–Manoel Bandeira
To historians my perception about race and the state is not a new, tentative intuition but an established fact. Literary people do not see their own liberal prejudice (now that we are in enlightened democracies, vestiges of older orders can be cleared out by people of good will) or realize how invested they are in hybrid models of national identity.
It is as though these had been propagated para inglês ver and to control the populace while the racial state consolidated itself behind closed doors.
Axé.