“In sum, the Northeast was forming through practices that shaped its cartography through the persistent struggle against drought; violent measures against messianic… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Northeast 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… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Coronelismo Emerged Copy Share Image
“Cabral’s poetry, as with Guimarães Rosa’s prose, constituted a critical reply to the relations of determination that existed in regionalist literature between… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Amor Copy Share Image
“1960s—enshrined the Northeast as the most representative example of Brazil’s problems with hunger, poverty, subdevelopment, alienation, and despair. Accepting without question the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Amor 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… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Amor 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… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Amor 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… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Desire 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 Books Copy Share Image
