Master of the 'Literatura De Cordel' Leandro Gomes De Barros

'The Master of the 'Literatura de Cordel' - Leandro Gomes de Barros. A Bilingual Anthology of Selected Works' is Professor Curran's return to research and writing from his first days in Brazil in 1966-1967 on a Fulbright Hays Fellowship for Ph.D. dissertation work. This book treats 'Cordel's' best known and arguably best poet, a translation to English of his selected works, and a commentary on his pioneering days of the 'Literatura de Cordel.' Among the poet's topics were the changing times, foreigners in Brazil, government-politics-and war, mothers-in-law, sugar cane rum, religion and satire, banditry, the oral poetic duel, and the long narrative poems from the European popular tradition. Curran in addition gives a synopsis of the 'Literatura de Cordel' as it was in its heyday in his initial research in the 1960s. The translation was a challenge but also a great pleasure.