The SYMBOLIC complex we know in our culture under the name of "sertão", and its chief character the cangaceiro, has known different approaches, since the initial nativistic project . It was absorbed later by the "romance de 30", in which social critique would be predominant. And it was crucial in the great epoch of the rise of Cinema Novo. Although it has been in decline since then, we cannot deny its persistency, under many forms.
