this text tries to verify how the nation was constructed in grande sert？o: veredas [the devil to pay in the backlands] by guimar？es rosa, and deus e o diabo na terra do sol [black god, white devil] by glauber rocha. by analyzing authors as homi bhabha, stuart hall and walter mignolo, the text inquires how these authors had constructed the sert？o (backland).
