Revolution in the Terra do Sol (eBook)

The Cold War in Brazil

Sarah Sarzynski (Autor)

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2018
352 Seiten
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-0559-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines how entrenched beliefs about Brazil's Northeast region as backwards, barbaric, and violent influenced the trajectory of projects intended to solve the problem of rural poverty during the Cold War and set the stage for the Brazilian Armed Forces' 1964 coup.

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Sarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War-era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years. Rural social movements that unfolded in the Northeast beginning in the 1950s inspired Brazilian and international filmmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and journalists to envision a potential social revolution in Brazil. But in the wake of the Cuban Revolution, the strength of rural social movements also raised fears about the threat of communism and hemispheric security.Turning to sources including Cinema Novo films, biographies, chapbook literature, and materials from U.S. and Brazilian government archives, Sarzynski shows how representations of the Northeast depended on persistent stereotypes depicting the region as backward, impoverished, and violent. By late March 1964, Brazilian Armed Forces faced little resistance when overthrowing democratically elected leaders in part because of the widely held belief that the violence and chaos in the "e;backward"e; Northeast threatened the modern Brazilian nation. Sarzynski's cultural history recasts conventional narratives of the Cold War in Brazil, showing how local struggles over land reform and rural workers' rights were part of broader ideological debates over capitalism and communism, Third World independence, and modernization on a global scale.

Autor

Sarah Sarzynski is Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.5.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 36 figures, 1 map
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Brazilian popular culture • Cold War • Cultural History • Cultural Representations • Inequality • Northeastern Brazil • Regionalism • rural social movements
• ISBN-10: 1-5036-0559-0 / 1503605590
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5036-0559-6 / 9781503605596