The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Albuquerque Jr., Durval Muniz de (Albuquerque Júnior) (Author)
Other Authors: Green, James N. (writer of foreword.), Metz, Jerry Dennis (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Socialhistoria.
Historia.
Regionalismus
Nationenbildung
Social conditions.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Brasilien
Northeast Brazil.
Nordeste (Bresil) > Conditions sociales.
Brazil, Northeast > Social conditions.
Brazil, Northeast > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Geography in ruins
  • The regionalist gaze
  • The new regionalism
  • Regionalist literature
  • North versus south
  • Spaces of nostalgia
  • Stories of tradition
  • The invention of the Northeast
  • Northeastern pages
  • Northeastern brush strokes
  • Northeastern music
  • Northeastern dramas
  • Territories of revolt
  • The inversion of the Northeast
  • Controversy and indignation
  • Portraits of misery and pain
  • Images that cut and pierce
  • Seeing through the camera eye.

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