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The Brazilian intellectual and the subject matter of cangaço in the 1930s

ABSTRACT

Cangaço was a very common theme in books, newspapers, songs, theatrical part and movies throughout all the first half of XX century. This article has the point to compare intelectual views about this subject, making the purpose to explain how the cangaço was intellectually recreated by writers, engaging the discourses about it with the politic chronic of Brazil between the decades 20’ and 60’.

KEYWORDS
Cangaço; Brazilian Modernism; Estado Novo

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