| Titre | Os Capitães da Areia na construção do território soteropolitano | |
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| Auteur | Licia Soares de Souza | |
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Revue | Amerika |
| Numéro | No 10, 2014 Le Brésil de Jorge Amado: perspectives interculturelles | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thématique |
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| Résumé anglais |
This text is an analysis of Jorge Amado's Captains of the Sands (1937), written during centenary commemorations for the famed author. This analysis shows how the city of Salvador, the first capital of Brazil and the capital of the northeastern state of Bahia, is an active character in conjunction with the gang of street children. The city has always been characterized as a beautiful and sensual girl in Brazilian literature ; however, in this novel Dora can be read as a metaphor for the city, the only female member of the gang. The city, like Dora, loses its aesthetic status in order to reveal an accelerated process of urbanization, one that excludes the majority black population that is confined to precarious spaces of habitation. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | http://amerika.revues.org/4736 |
