Backlands : The Canudos Campaign
by da Cunha, Euclides (Author); Stavans, Ilan (Introduction by); Lowe, Elizabeth (Translator)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-05-25
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary
The Backlands is a translation of Euclide da Cunha's work Os Sertoes, a non-fictional account of the War of Canudos in Brazil during the 1890s. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict was between the Brazilian government and a rebellious village of 30,000 Canudos living in the northeastern state of Bahia, led by Antonio Conselheiro, a religious zealot. Far from being simply an objective journalistic account, Da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society.
Author Biography
Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909) was a Brazilian writer, sociologist, and engineer.
Elizabeth Lowe is the director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has translated the work of Clarice Lispector, Rubem Fonseca, N+¬lida Pi+¦on, Darcy Ribeiro, and Machado de Assis. She lives in Champaign, Illinois.
Ilan Stavans, a professor at Amherst College, is the award- winning author of numerous books, including On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language, and the editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. He has also edited and introduced several Penguin Classics. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Lowe is the director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has translated the work of Clarice Lispector, Rubem Fonseca, N+¬lida Pi+¦on, Darcy Ribeiro, and Machado de Assis. She lives in Champaign, Illinois.
Ilan Stavans, a professor at Amherst College, is the award- winning author of numerous books, including On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language, and the editor of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. He has also edited and introduced several Penguin Classics. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Translator's Preface | p. xxv |
| Chronology | p. xxvii |
| Timetable: The Canudos Campaign | p. xxxi |
| A Note on the Text | p. xxxv |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. xxxvii |
| Backlands: The Canudos Campaign | |
| A Preliminary Note | p. 1 |
| The Land | p. 3 |
| The Land | p. 5 |
| Man | p. 56 |
| The Battle | p. 179 |
| The Battle Begins | p. 181 |
| Trapped at Mount Cambaio | p. 205 |
| The Moreira César Expedition | p. 231 |
| The Fourth Expedition | p. 277 |
| A New Phase of the Battle | p. 397 |
| Last Days | p. 426 |
| Notes | p. 467 |
| Index | p. 477 |
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