As figurações da violência em Jorge Amado: política e marginalidade em Cacau e Capitães da Areia

Abstract

The present thesis aims to investigate the figurations of violence in the works Cacau (1933) and Capitães da Areia (1937), both written by Jorge Amado. In order to do this, we analyzed the violence found in them and what each one communicates, taking into account the author’s political, ideological and aesthetical project. At this precise moment in Brazilian Literature, the 30s, the many facets of violence (of work, institutionalized by the State, religious, sociopolitical, revolutionary) are described under the polarization capitalism versus socialism and several of them are products of the capitalism which was being established in the country. The same facets of violence are still present in our society and serve as mechanisms to oppress and deepen inequalities, postponing what Jorge Amado intended to perpetrate: the creation of regeneration opportunities and positive representations of the oppressed people as they are given decent survival means.