A invenção da memória e da identidade em O menino grapiúna e Terras do Sem Fim

Published with a forty-year gap between them, The Violent lands (1942) and The Grapiuna Boy (1981), by Jorge Amado, create links between the representations of a fictional setting about a Brazilian cocoa producer, with their characters (colonel, prostitutes, gunmen, explored agriculturalists) and the writer's memories: a boy born and raised in the south of Bahia and inserted in its geographical, historical and cultural scenario. In this work, we analyzed how memory and fiction are intertwined in these two Amado's books. We discuss notions of biography and autobiography, fiction and portraits of reality, in the process of inventing and representing identities which not only concerning historical reports, but they also build different strategies to witness history

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