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The invention of the Brazilian Northeast / Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. ; with a foreword by James N. Green ; translated by Jerry Dennis Metz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albuquerque Jr., Durval Muniz de (Albuquerque Júnior)
- Series:
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
- Standardized Title:
- Invenção do nordeste e outras artes. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brazil, Northeast--History.
- Brazil, Northeast.
- Brazil, Northeast--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>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.</div>
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357858
- 0822357852
- 9780822376071
- 0822376075
- OCLC:
- 1152059157
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