| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Pitt Latin American Series |
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Pitt Latin American series.
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| Contents |
Foreigners : exiles of drought and migration -- Return to sender : Gilberto Freyre, the Northeast, and the world -- Four fishermen and Orson Welles -- Sad girls, Coca-Colas, and US soldiers : World War II and Cold War memories -- The Northeast needs football, too -- The limits of the Northeast : Miss Brazil, Miss Universe, and Northeastern beauty -- A defiant Northeast : the Movimento de Cultura Popular and banditry |
| Summary |
"The Brazilian Northeast has long been a marginalized region with a complex relationship to national identity. It is often portrayed as impoverished, backward, and rebellious, yet traditional and culturally authentic. Brazil is known for its strong national identity, but national identities do not preclude strong regional identities. In Region Out of Place, Courtney J. Campbell examines how groups within the region have asserted their identity, relevance, and uniqueness through interactions that transcend national borders. From migration to labor mobilization, from wartime dating to beauty pageants, from literacy movements to representations of banditry in film, Campbell explores how the development of regional cultural identity is a modern, internationally embedded conversation that circulated among Brazilians of every social class. Part of a region-based nationalism that reflects the anxiety that conflicting desires for modernity, progress, and cultural authenticity provoked in the twentieth century, this identity was forged by residents who continually stepped out of their expected roles, taking their region's concerns to an international stage"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Group identity -- Brazil, Northeast
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National characteristics, Brazilian.
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HISTORY / General
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Civilization
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Group identity
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Manners and customs
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National characteristics, Brazilian
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Brazil, Northeast -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006850
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Brazil, Northeast -- Social life and customs
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Brazil, Northeast -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Northeast Brazil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022000991 |
| ISBN |
0822987627 |
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9780822987628 |
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