“Cabral’s poetry, as with Guimarães Rosa’s prose, constituted a critical reply to the relations of determination that existed in regionalist literature between material poverty and cultural poverty. Both writers attempted to show that material poverty could be accompanied by cultural riches, and that, while in a world characterized by contradiction and mixture not everything could be resolved in synthesis, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share
“It was with this book, according to Lins do Rego, that “the Northeast discovered itself as a fatherland (o Nordeste se descobriu… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“In sum, the Northeast was forming through practices that shaped its cartography through the persistent struggle against drought; violent measures against messianic movements and… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“Coronelismo arose as a symptom of the decadence of rural patriarchies and the growing dependence of landowners on public officials. This was to maintain their own privileged position, which was built on the latticework of dependency of the popular sectors under them. As a form of brokerage, coronelismo emerged from the new need for compromise between urban groups and rural… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share
“Cabral’s poetry, as with Guimarães Rosa’s prose, constituted a critical reply to the relations of determination that existed in regionalist literature between material poverty and cultural poverty. Both writers attempted to show that material poverty could be accompanied by cultural riches, and that, while in a world characterized by contradiction and mixture not everything could be resolved in synthesis, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share
“1960s—enshrined the Northeast as the most representative example of Brazil’s problems with hunger, poverty, subdevelopment, alienation, and despair. Accepting without question the spatial existence… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“It was with this book, according to Lins do Rego, that “the Northeast discovered itself as a fatherland (o Nordeste se descobriu como patria).”… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“It is an intriguing paradox that while on the whole Brazil’s cultural economy was increasingly homogenized along the strategies of capitalism, the Northeast would… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the desire for… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
