A figura do judeu nas obras de Jorge Amado
Suor e Tenda dos milagres
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5828758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kátia Giovana Costa Lima (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | THESIS |
| Publisher | Universidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11606/d.8.2014.tde-08072015-112258 |
| OpenAlex | W2523161987 |
| Language | PT |
| References cited | 4 |
The jew figure in works of Jorge Amado: Suor and Tenda dos Milagres.The dissertation proposes to examine the presence of Jewish characters in novels of Jorge Amado, specifically in Suor and Tenda dos Milagres, both from modernist period of Brazilian literature, covering, however, different times of political and literary life of the author, which communist was being persecuted and watched by their ideals and political aspirations, also at different moments in history.Although the novels are of the same period, the narratives unfold punctually during the Getúlio Vargas ruled, from 1930 to 1945, stopping specifically in the 1920s and 1930s highlighted by the persecution of Communists and Jews moments, justifying, then the author's choice and the two novels.Besides the Vargas Era, it covers up the military dictatorship, considering Tenda dos Milagres novel was published in 1969, this being the present time of the narrative, with the background of the Vargas government.The research objective was to determine whether there is a distinction in the treatment of the Jews, regardless of time, both from the author's standpoint in relation to how it relates, writes and sees them as the characters that compose his works.Thus, the Jewish figures were opposed to foreigners and immigrants, seeking to distinguish if they receive differential treatment from Jewish element.This distinction between foreigners and immigrants is also a focus of the study and analysis and it is due the way they appear in the literature, sometimes as an element "bleaching", or as hand labor, sometimes as undesirable, for example.The working method included two fronts: a survey and analysis of the foreigner and the immigrant.Jewish or not, in various works of Jorge Amado, but specifically in the two novels in question and the comparison between representation and presentation of the Jewish character in the specific works, since each was composed and published in different periods of Brazil's history and the bahian society of the time.As results, the analysis of the two novels are presented and compared, as well as their characters and the historical, political and social context of the narrative, concluding that there is a distinction in the treatment to the Jewish compared with other foreign and immigrants analyzed; to arrive at this result, several questions were formulated that underlie research, such as: in what measure is the foreign discriminated since he occupies the position of the "other", the different?In what measure are the Jews discriminated in Brazil, as a legacy of Portuguese colonialism?How are they discriminated during the Vargas Era and the Military Dictatorship?Do foreigners generally receive similar treatment in different literary texts
Aesthetics · Art · Communism · Dictatorship · Humanities · Immigration · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Brazilian cultural history and politics · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies · History · Law · Literature, Culture, and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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