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First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Religion and Revolution: The Allegorical Subtexts of Capitaes da areia 2. Ambiguity Lost: Jorge Amado's A morte e a morte de Quincas Berro Dagua 3. Stirking a Balance: Amado and the Critics 4. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon: Rewriting the Discourse of the Native 4. Malandro Heaven: Amado's Utopian Vision 5. Bitter Harvest: Violent Oppression in Cacau and Terra do sem fim 6. Dressing Down the Warrior Maiden: Plot, Perspective and Gender Ideology in Tereza Batista cansada de guerra 7. the Vox Populi in the Novels of Jorge Amado and John Steinbeck 8. A Character in Spite of Her Author: Dona Flor Liberates Herself from Jorge Amado 9. Jorge Amado and the Classical Tradition Aristonphanes in Bahia 10. Jorge and Zelia Amado's Long Visit to the Pennsylvania State university in 1971: Surprise and Success 11. The Early Jorge Amado 12. From Lundu and Modinha to Samba de Enredo and MPB: Popular Music and the Fiction of Jorge Amado 13. Questioning Jorge Amado's Fictional Women of Color: Tereza Batista as Herione or Victim 14. O Sumico da Santa (The War of the Saints) : A Postmodern Reconstruction of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary Bahian Society 15. A Postcolonial Reading of a Colonized Malandro 16. Hybridity vs. Pluralism: Culture, Race, and Aesthetics in Jorge Amado 17. The Immanent Imp: Humor in the Later Works of Jorge Amado
About the author
Keith Brower is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Salisbury State University. Enrique Martinez-Vidal is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Dickinson College.
Summary
Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading Latin American Studies scholars. As the case of Jorge Amado is central to the emergence of Brazilian literature in the twentieth century, this volume of original essays will place him in clearer critical perspective for English language readers.
