Albuquerque Jr. The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7607-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Latin America in Translation

One of Brazil’s leading historians denaturalizes the country’s Northeast, showing when, by whom, and for what reasons the region was invented as a region with a particular identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Albuquerque Jr., Durval Muniz de

Weitere Mitwirkende

Metz, Jerry Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / James Green ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. Geography in Ruins 14

The Regionalist Gaze 15

The New Regionalism 21

Regionalist Literature 25

North versus South 29

2. Spaces of Nostalgia 36

Stories of Tradition 36

The Invention of the Northeast 44

Northeastern Pages 74

Northeastern Brush Strokes 109

Northeastern Music 114

Northeastern Dramas 124

3. Territories of Revolt 131

The Inversion of the Northeast 131

Controversy and Indignation 151

Portraits of Misery and Pain 176

Images That Cut and Pierce 184

Seeing through the Camera Eye 192

Conclusion 220

Notes 233

Bibliography 255

Index 269

Über Autor(innen)

Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. is Professor of Brazilian History at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. An award-winning author, he is considered one of Brazil's leading historians.

James N. Green is Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University. He is the author of We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States, also published by Duke University Press.

Jerry Dennis Metz, translator and independent scholar, has a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Maryland, College Park.