... the Quebra-Quilos riots were processed and represented as touching on the everyday, the community of Canudos has been etched into the historical archive under the sign of the subaltern. One of the by- products of such an inscription is the disappearance of everydayness as a meaningful category...

...—Mario Vargas Llosa’s The War of the End of the World (1981), the novel about Canudos, an outlaw community deep in the Brazilian backlands that was home to prostitutes, freaks, beg- gars, bandits, and the most wretched of the poor. Canudos, led by an apoca- lyptic prophet, was a utopian space without...

... is currently completing a manuscript on the subalternization of Canudos. david e. johnson is an associate professor and the director of graduate studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Buffalo. He is the coeditor, with Scott Michaelsen, of Border Theory: The Limits...

... ruthless, became part of a great and absolute future project. Resistance to oppression during the republic, much of which took the form of movements with a strong mystical and millenarian component—as seen in the war of Canudos in the Brazilian northeast (1896–97) and the revolt of Contestado...