Waiting for rain the politics and poetry of drought in northeast Brazil /

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"Drawing on interviews with artists and poets and on his own experiences in the Brazilian Northeast, Arons has written an account of how drought has impacted the region's culture. He intertwines ecological, social, and political issues with the words of some of Brazil's most prominent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arons, Nicholas Gabriel, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson, AZ : University of Arizona Press, ©2004.
Temas:
Seca > Social aspects.
Seca > Political aspects.
Seca > Aspect social.
Seca > Aspect politique.
Social conditions.
Lebensbedingungen
Landbevölkerung
Dürre
Brazil, Northeast > Social conditions.
Nordeste (Brésil) > Conditions sociales.
Northeast Brazil.
Brasilien > Nordost
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface: Fusion and Confusion
  • 1. Earth and Wind
  • 2. Snapshots of the Northeast
  • 3. The Apocalypse
  • 4. Poetry on a String
  • 5. From the Sertao to the Streets
  • 6. The Land Is Good, the Sky Is Bad
  • 7. Holy Jeronimo!
  • 8. The Politics of Drought
  • 9. Messiahs, Troubadours, and Bards
  • 10. Homer of the Sertao
  • 11. Government Corrals and a ""World Covered in Pain
  • 12. NASA or Jacob
  • 13. The Priest
  • 14. ""Walking Single-File to the World Beyond
  • 15. An Old Man Dancing
  • 16. ""So As Not to Say That I Did Not Speak of Flowers
  • 17. Air and Fire
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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