Brazilian literature

Brazilian literary non-profit society

The sertão (, plural sertões) is the "hinterland" or "backcountry" of Brazil. The word refers both to one of the four sub-regions of the Northeast Region of Brazil or the hinterlands of the country in general (similar to the specific association of "outback" with Australia in English). Northeast Brazil is largely covered in a scrubby upland forest called caatingas, from the Tupi language, meaning white forest. Leaves fall during dry season and most of the vegetation, mainly bushes and small trees, is reduced to bare branches and trunks in characteristic pale grayish, or off-white, hues. The re

subset of literature produced or related to Brazil

Brazilian literary genre

The first scientific book about Brazil, written by Dutch naturalist Willem Piso and published in 1648.

Brazilian literary and artistic movement

Letter accounting Portuguese arrival into present-day Brazil

The agreste (, "countryside") is a narrow zone of Brazil in the states of Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia between the coastal forest zona da mata and the semiarid sertão. The agreste fades out after it reaches Rio Grande do Norte due to the break of the mountain chain that blocks air currents from the Atlantic Ocean. This barrier is what induces high rainfall in the coastal Atlantic forest zone.

manifesto by Oswald de Andrade

Brazilian poet (1791-1857)

cultural movement in the 20th century

Brazilian cultural movement