Do negro ao mestiço: os contornos da mestiçagem em Tenda dos Milagres de Jorge Amado

• Autor(a) principal: Esteves, Felipe Eugênio de Leão
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19972
• topic: Mestiçagem na literatura; Amado, Jorge [1912-2001] - Tenda dos milagres - Crítica e interpretação; Negros - Bahia, BA; Miscegenation; Tent of Miracle; Blackness; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The central purpose of this work is to make a reflection about the construct of the term miscegenation in the book Tent of Miracles (1969), written by Jorge Amado, and then find and cross multiple contributions intellectual, affective and empirical that may have influenced in the elaboration of the discourse evidenced in the literary text. So, the author's life is taken as research source. We understand his artistic elaboration as an esthetic experimentation that emerges from – and remits to – a specific social context that he lived. Also, we focus mainly on the concepts about miscegenation that emerge in the literary text itself, making Tent of Miracles our primordial source. Considering the multiple significances of the term miscegenation in historiography, we are focusing in its use on the literary object, taking into account the significances and concepts that this term has acquired in different times and places. We point the closer relation between the construct of miscegenation and literary representations of the city of Salvador in Tent. We analyses the microcosms of the city represented and its relation with the idea of miscegenation present in the text. The objective is to identify and understand, in the literary work, vestiges of possible overviews of historical conjunctures. Here, we understand literature like a possible document for historical research, taking into account the subjectivities present in an artistic document. Also, we think important to understand and discuss historical functions of Tent of Miracles – like pointed by Antonio Candido, who identifies this function in the literary structure, considering that this one has direct relations with author significances about the place where the literary piece is conceived, a relevant aspect, considering that the place that has inspired Amado was the same the novel is set in. We point out that Tent presents us refracted images of Jorge Amado’s living between black people, frequenting territories and having experiences in Salvador. This fact brings some elements that problematize the historiographic formulation about Amado like an author who exalted the miscegenation like a way of racial pacification. This research proposes to think about an author facet, analyzing it from his own creation, not looking for answers established of the history in the literature, or the opposite, but trying to find signs of feedback between history and literature – an approach that presents us to subjects, overviews, ruptures and historical continuities