Açúcar amargo: as tendências desagregadoras da agricultura açucareira em Contrapunteo Cubano del Tabaco y el Azúcar e em Casa Grande & Senzala

Abstract

We will analyze the social and political thinking of Gilberto Freyre and Fernando Ortiz, in order to seek similarities and contrasts in the ways in which they deal with sugar farming. Thus, the objective is to understand the extent to which Contrapunteo Cubano del Tabaco y El Azucar and Casa Grande & Senzala, studies of the same programmatic nature, were constructed in the sense of a critique of the disaggregating attributes of sugarcane monoculture. We will attempt comprehend these tendencies from three axes that will seek to clarify the historical and conceptual precedents for this analysis, the structural construction of the sugar universes and the results of their influences in each author.