See also

  • History of Brazil
  • Brazilian literature
  • Drought
  • Brazil Socio-Geographic Division
  • Sertão
  • Droughts
  • Tieta do Agreste, a Brazilian novel and film
  • Caatinga

References

Nonfiction

  • Michael H. Glantz; Currents of Change : El Niño's Impact on Climate and Society; published 1996 by Cambridge University Press.
  • Michael H. Glantz (editor); Drought Follows The Plow: Cultivating Marginal Areas; published 1994 by Cambridge University Press.
  • Fagan, Brian; Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations; published 2000 by Basic Books.
  • Nicholas G. Arons; Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil; published 2004 by University of Arizona Press.
  • Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands

Fiction

  • Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas ("Barren Lives"), novel