Allegories of a Macerated Nation: Glauber Rocha’s Sertão

This text deals with an imaginative geography which, in Brazil, modeled a category of space, the sertão, as one of the main forms of speaking about and defining the nation. This article tries to understand how Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil [Deus e o Diabo Na Terra do Sol] movies constructed the sertão and how that sertão delineates and projects the country. Glauber Rocha filmed at the epicenter of contradictions between the affirmation of Brazil in the face of an external other and the presence of others in the nation, but also in the presence of a plurality of voices and historical subjects in the face of a national state that is planning on diversity.