Cordel do Fogo Encantado: "Jackhammering" Sedimented Representations of the Brazilian Northeast

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Author:

Daniel Sharp, Tulane University

Subject:

Social Sciences

Institution Name:

Latin America Learning

Collection:

Michigan State University

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Abstract:

Within Brazil, the Northeast region has been represented in popular music, literature and film as a wellspring of cultural authenticity, pre-modern roots and a living past. However, it has also been the site of terrible periodic droughts and mass migrations that have contributed to it being portrayed as a space of misery. Linked to its status as a space of poverty, the arid serta

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English

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