Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel

Candace Slater

University of California Press, 1989 - History - 313 pages

Stories on a String introduces the cordel to students of literature and popular culture, folklorists, and social scientists as well as general readers. Based on interviews with the popular poets and their audiences, it provides an overview and a literary and social analysis of the tradition. Stories on a String introduces the cordel to students of literature and popular culture, folklorists, and social scientists as well as general readers. Based on interviews with the popular poets and their audiences, it provides an overview and a literary and social analysis of the tradition.

About the author

Candace Slater is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Trail of Miracles: Stories from a Pilgrimage in Northeast Brazil (California, 1986).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel
• Author: Candace Slater
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: University of California Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0520068025, 9780520068025
• Length: 313 pages
• Subjects: History / Latin America / General