The Brazilian cordel literature
collection contains over 2000 pamphlets of popular literature known in Portuguese as literatura de cordel or "string literature."
Traditionally,
literatura de cordel is composed in verse and illustrated with woodcuts on the front cover,
and it derives its name from the way it is sold suspended by a string in Brazilian open-air
markets. The collection includes pamphlets published between 1924 and 1990 arranged into
four series by region of publication: Center-West, Northeast, Southeast, and Undetermined.
The collection inventory provides the title of each pamphlet in the collection.
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Language:
Collection material is in Portuguese
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute Special Collections 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100 Los Angeles 90049-1688 reference@getty.edu URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref (310) 440-7390
