Sentencing Canudos : Subalternity in the Backlands of Brazil.

By:

Johnson, Adriana Michele Campos

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780822977650

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sentencing CanudosDDC classification:

981.05

LOC classification:

F2537

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Voice of Others -- Chapter Two: A Prose of Counterinsurgency -- Chapter Three: The Event and the Everyday -- Chapter Four: Os Sertões: Nationalism by Elimination -- Chapter Five: Another Canudos -- Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony's residents followed Antonio Conselheiro, who promoted a communal existence free from taxes and oppression. Estimates of the death toll range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand. Sentencing Canudos offers an original perspective on the hegemonic intellectual discourse surrounding this event. In her study, Johnson views the process of nation building and the silencing of "other" voices through the reinvisioning of history. Looking primarily to Euclides da Cunha's Os Sert›es, she maintains that the events and people of Canudos have been "sentenced" to history by this work.

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In the late nineteenth century, the Brazilian army staged several campaigns against the settlement of Canudos in northeastern Brazil. The colony's residents followed Antonio Conselheiro, who promoted a communal existence free from taxes and oppression. Estimates of the death toll range from fifteen thousand to thirty thousand. Sentencing Canudos offers an original perspective on the hegemonic intellectual discourse surrounding this event. In her study, Johnson views the process of nation building and the silencing of "other" voices through the reinvisioning of history. Looking primarily to Euclides da Cunha's Os Sert›es, she maintains that the events and people of Canudos have been "sentenced" to history by this work.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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