The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast

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Brazil's Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the country's poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work, the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by inhabitants of other parts of Brazil but also by nordestinos themselves. His broader question though, is how "the Northeast" came into existence. Tracing the history of its invention, he finds that the idea of the Northeast was formed in the early twentieth century, when elites around Brazil became preoccupied with building a nation. Diverse phenomena-from drought policies to messianic movements, banditry to new regional political blocs-helped to consolidate this novel concept, the Northeast. Politicians, intellectuals, writers, and artists, often nordestinos, played key roles in making the region cohere as a space of common references and concerns. Ultimately, Albuqerque urges historians to question received concepts, such as regions and regionalism, to reveal their artifice and abandon static categories in favor of new, more granular understandings.

Über den Autor

Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr.

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822357858
ISBN-10:	0822357852
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Albuquerque Jr., Durval Muniz de
Übersetzung:	Metz, Jerry Dennis
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr.
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.10.2014
Gewicht:	0,429 kg