The invention of the Brazilian Northeast
By: Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. ; with a foreword by James N. Green ; translated by Jerry Dennis Metz
Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução; Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780822357704; 9780822357858
Subjects: Social conditions; History
Work titles: Invenção do nordeste e outras artes
Notes: Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Geography in ruins; title: The regionalist gaze; title: The new regionalism; title: Regionalist literature; title: North versus south; title: Spaces of nostalgia; title: Stories of tradition; title: The invention of the Northeast; title: Northeastern pages; title: Northeastern brush strokes; title: Northeastern music; title: Northeastern dramas; title: Territories of revolt; title: The inversion of the Northeast; title: Controversy and indignation; title: Portraits of misery and pain; title: Images that cut and pierce; title: Seeing through the camera eye.