| FEL-267222-20 | Research Programs: Fellowships | Jacob Blanc | The Prestes Column Rebellion: An Interior History of Twentieth-Century Brazil | 9/1/2020 - 8/31/2021 | $60,000.00 | Jacob | | Blanc | | | | University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | | EH8 9AG | Scotland | 2019 | Latin American History | Fellowships | Research Programs | 60000 | 0 | 60000 | 0 | Research and writing leading to a
book on the Prestes Column, a rebellion of military personnel that shook
Brazilian politics and ignited the public imagination during the 1920s.
This project offers the first critical reinterpretation of one of the most mythologized events in Brazilian history: the Prestes Column rebellion, when from 1924 to 1927, a group of junior army officers marched nearly 25,000 kilometers through Brazil's vast interior. While existing scholarship has treated the passage through the interior as a backdrop to the rebellion, I focus on the interior regions themselves, exploring how the country's so-called “backlands" served as both a place and a concept in the formation of modern Brazil. By analyzing the rebel passage through the interior and also the meanings attached to that experience afterwards, I will chart the Column's political, conceptual, and geographic significance throughout the twentieth century.My study of the Prestes Column will also serve to develop an entirely new subfield: interior history, an innovative approach for studying Brazil and also Latin America as a whole. |