DINNEEN, Mark. Listening to the People’s Voice. Erudite and Popular Literature in North East Brazil

[From the cover] "The work highlights the crucial differences between the erudite literary tradition of North East Brazil and the popular cultural expressions of the region, especially the popular poetic or romanciero tradition, showing how these differences are rooted in the contrasting objective conditions within which the respective literatures are produced. It goes on to follow the attempts made through the years by erudite writers of the North East to overcome the problem of those cultural divisions and to incorporate elements of popular culture in their work in an effort to affirm a distinctly regional identity"