Landscape semaphore: seeing mud and mangroves in the Brazilian Northeast

Abstract

In 20th‐century Northeast Brazilian representations of the landscape of the estuarine Atlantic coast we find a re‐calibration of perspective that is foreshortened, embodied, and muddied. These works produce a counter‐hegemonic political aesthetics of nature that unsettles the fixities of colonial ways of seeing space, nature, and territory. As landscapes, they re‐configure the relationship between space and perception, and between nature and aesthetics.

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Authors/Creators:

Davies, A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7421-419X

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Keywords:

Brazil; coloniality; cultural geography; landscape; mangrove; Recife

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