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Subalternizing Canudos

MLN - Modern Language Notes, 2005
exaly   +2 more sources

War of Canudos

2021
Abstract The War of Canudos was fought in the northeastern desert-like backlands (sertão) of Brazil at the end of the 19th century between the community of Belo Monte/Canudos and Brazil’s recently established republican government. The leader of Canudos, a charismatic man known as Antônio Conselheiro, was considered a holy man by his ...
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Vargas Llosa in Canudos

World Literature Today, 1986
ing in the novelistic ventures of Mario Vargas Llosa, in which abound enormous spaces, vast and complex temporal displacements, and masses of characters struggling among themselves and with History. The case of La guerra del fin del mundo, now available in English as The War of the End of the World,* however, is very special.
José Miguel Oviedo   +3 more
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Canudos in the National Context

The Americas, 1991
In 1893, the penitent known as Antônio Conselheiro convinced several thousand devout followers to join with him in creating a religious community at Canudos in the Bahian sertão. It grew precipitously, attracting pilgrims from every part of the region, some from places more than two hundred kilometers distant.
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Canudos

2018
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Photography as Anthropotechnique and the Legacy of Canudos

2020
This chapter explores the ways in which Flávio de Barros’s photographic documentation of the war in Canudos (1896–1897) has become a conceptual prism through which to consider the role of photography in both the maintenance and contestation of biopolitical control in Brazil. The photobook Desterro (2014), a creative archive of a “fictional ethnographic”
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