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The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast (Hardcover)
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The Invention of the Brazilian Northeast (Hardcover)
Series: Latin America in Translation
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Total price: R2,793
Discovery Miles: 27 930
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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
after independence, 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.
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