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Article: Nicholas Gabriel Arons. Waiting for Rain--The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil.(Book review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- December 22, 2005
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Nicholas Gabriel Arons. Waiting for Rain--The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2004. xxvii + 252 pp. $17.95
As I write this review, tropical rain falls heavily outside. The weather here in Maceio, a city on the coastal region of Alagoas, in Northeast Brazil, has been wet for about two weeks now. Heavy rains usually bring hopes and fears to the inhabitants of the urban zones: fears that damage will be caused to those without appropriate housing, and hopes that the rains will reach the inland area, where the natural phenomenon of cyclical droughts has caused disasters for centuries. Being from this region, the geographical ...