Book Recommendations by Pépite Blues

Dalton Paula: Brazilian Portraits, Glaucea Helena de Britto, Adriano Pedrosa, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, eds.,Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand/KMEC Books, 2023

In Portuguese, ‘my land’ is many times used to mean ‘home’: minha terra. When examining Portuguese-language literature we discover that, here, possession fundamentally conceals a sense of belonging. One belongs to the land more than one possesses it. In Brazil, although land is the subject of numerous conflicts and (…)