MARTHA S. SANTOS: Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845-1889. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012.
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[1] Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: EIAL: Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe, ISSN-e 0792-7061, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 141-143
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Dilma Rousseff’s historic victory in the 2010 presidential election depended on sweeping the Brazilian northeast. She triumphed in a region habitually described by its impoverishment, natural calamities, and a longstanding regard for violence as the basis of authority. Repeated ad nauseam about the northeast in general, and its sertão, or hinterlands, in particular, these attributes have acquired a timeless and inherent quality. What, then, can Dilma’s resounding electoral performance suggest about the changing codes of public life in the northeast?
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