ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |27 pages
“Dressing Down” the Warrior Maiden
Plot, Perspective, and Gender Ideology in Tereza Batista cansada de guerra
chapter |14 pages
Jorge and Zélia Amado's Long Visit to Pennsylvania State University in 1971
Surprise and Success
chapter |17 pages
From Lundu and Modinha to Samba de Enredo and MPB
Popular Music and the Fiction of Jorge Amado
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chapter |12 pages
Questioning Jorge Amado's Fictional Women-of-Color
Tereza Batista as Legend or Heroine?
chapter |18 pages
O sumiço da santa [The War of the Saints]
A Postmodern Reconstruction of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary Bahian Society
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