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Cuíca de Santo Amaro Controvérsia no Cordel

Hedra

São Paulo: Hedra, 2000. Introduction and organization by Mark J. Curran

Professor Curran was asked by Hedra Publishing House in São Paulo to organize this anthology and write the introduction. The volume is one of fifty planned, each highlighting the career and accomplishments of a major writer of “cordel.”

Cuíca de Santo Amaro, the folk-popular “hell’s mouth” of Salvador da Bahia, a title earned  by virtue of  his story-poems written during thirty years, from the 1940s, 1950s to the mid-1960s, documented in the most complete fashion the daily life in the city of Bahia de Todos os Santos: the hard times for the poor, the customs and moral expectations in the city of Salvador in those days, the crimes, the natural disasters, and perhaps most important, the scandals of private and public life in Bahia. In addition, Cuíca chronicled the political times in Brasil.  He was known as a less than perfect artisan of verse, but as a wonderful poet-reporter.

The book is in Portuguese, but titles are translated below to English.

  • Introduction
  • The Man Who Turned into a Skeleton from Waiting so Long for a Dial Tone
  • The Woman Who Left Her Husband “Disarmed”
  • The Vengeance of the Man from Brotas
  • The Marriage of the Man from Brotas
  • The Arrival of Hitler in Hell
  • The Capabilities of General Lott
  • The Resounding Victory of Jânio Quadros
  • The Inauguration of Jango Goulart
  • Why I Became a Candidate for City Council
  • The Dishonesty in the Local Elections
  • He Who Has Enemies Never Sleeps
  • List of “folhetos” written by Cuíca de Santo Amaro
  • Bibliography

 

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