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Rebellion in the Backlands: Landscape with Figures
ABEI Journal, 2010 Brazil’s historical situation in the period immediately preceding the writing of Os Sertões informs the very conception of the book. The Republic was proclaimed in 1889, one year after the abolition of slavery, and the early years of republican period ...
Walnice Nogueira Galvão
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Latin American Literary Review: Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands) by Euclides da Cunha is an intermedial project. Its "particular technography," as Euclides envisioned it in a letter to José Veríssimo, "embodies itself" in a "transgression of genres" (as argued by Haroldo de ...
João Queiroz, Ana Luiza Fernandes
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A tradução de Samuel Putnam de Os Sertões - Rebellion in the Backlands, de Euclides da Cunha
Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos, 1997 Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht Samuel Putnams Übersetzung des Romans Os Sertões von Euclides da Cunha (Rebellion in the Backlands) unter verschiedenen Gesichtspunkten.
John Milton
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Brazilian backlands (sertão) – natural disaster or ecocatastrophe? An ecocritical reading of João Guimarães Rosa’s landscapes [PDF]
Crossroads, 2022 In the wake of some realist novels and of Euclides da Cunhaʼs Os sertões [Rebellion in the Backlands, 1902], a body of writing known as “regionalist literature” developed in the 1930s around the sertão, the semi-arid region of the northeast center of ...
Corinne Fournier Kiss
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MEDIEVALISMS AND MEDIEVAL TIMES: CONFRONTING CHRONOPOLITICS WITH MEDIEVAL TEXTURES OF TIME
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 142-156, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This review essay examines Nadia R. Altschul's discussion of medievalism in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century South America in Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth‐Century South America. She explores a chronopolitics whereby the notion that late medieval Iberia lagged developmentally behind the rest of Europe ...
Hannah Skoda
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Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 50, Issue 21, 16 November 2023., 2023 Abstract Due to their choked geometry, coastal lagoons can attenuate extreme water levels compared to the open sea. However, this protective property is expected to decrease due to sea‐level rise. By studying idealized lagoons in a non‐dimensional parameter space, this study describes non‐linear interactions between tides, storm surges, freshwater ...
Marvin Lorenz, Arne Arns, Ulf Gräwe
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Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 397-417, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper discusses the relevance of radical scholarship by exploring the case of the Centre International pour le Développement (CID), founded by Brazilian geographer Josué de Castro during his exile in Paris. Drawing upon Latin American works on the “Lettered City” and the evolving role of intellectuals in constructing critical knowledge, I
Federico Ferretti
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Landscape semaphore: Seeing mud and mangroves in the Brazilian Northeast
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 3, Page 626-641, September 2021., 2021 In 20th‐century Northeast Brazilian representations of the landscape of the estuarine Atlantic coast we find a re‐calibration of perspective that is foreshortened, embodied, and muddied. These works produce a counter‐hegemonic political aesthetics of nature that unsettles the fixities of colonial ways of seeing space, nature, and territory.
Archie Davies
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