Revolution in the terra do sol : the Cold War in Brazil / Sarah Sarzynski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarzynski, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ligas Camponesas (Brazil)--History.

History.

Rural poor--Political activity.

Rural poor.

Peasants--Political activity.

Peasants.

Social movements.

Propaganda.

Brazil--History--Revolution, 1964--Causes.

Brazil--History--Revolution, 1964--Propaganda.

Social movements--Brazil, Northeast--History--20th century.

Peasants--Political activity--Brazil, Northeast--History--20th century.

Rural poor--Political activity--Brazil, Northeast--History--20th century.

Brazil, Northeast--History--20th century.

Cold War.

Northeast Brazil.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

ix, 334 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Sarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War-era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years. Rural social movements that unfolded in the Northeast beginning in the 1950s inspired Brazilian and international filmmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and journalists to envision a potential social revolution in Brazil. But in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the strength of rural social movements also raised fears about the threat of communism and hemispheric security. Turning to sources including Cinema Novo films, biographies, chapbook literature, and materials from U.S. and Brazilian government archives, Sarzynski shows how representations of the Northeast depended on persistent stereotypes depicting the region as backward, impoverished, and violent. By late March 1964, Brazilian Armed Forces faced little resistance when overthrowing democratically elected leaders in part because of the widely held belief that the violence and chaos in the "backward" Northeast threatened the modern Brazilian nation. Sarzynski's cultural history recasts conventional narratives of the Cold War in Brazil, showing how local struggles over land reform and rural workers' rights were part of broader ideological debates over capitalism and communism, Third World independence, and modernization on a global scale. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : tropes of o Nordeste : contested visions of the region during the Cold War

Revolution in Brazil : historical context and key players

Masculinity, barbarism and honor : representations of the cangaceiro

The coronel and the rural poor : narratives of class struggle

Racialized representations : slavery, abolition and quilombos

Religion as a political tool : resurrecting Canudos and revolutionizing Jesus

Survival and resistance : re-membering the Ligas Camponesas in the 1980s

Zito de Galiléia : preserving a past and envisioning a future of the Engenho Galiléia and o Nordeste.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781503603691

1503603695

OCLC:

999512284