Literatura e mestiçagem religiosa: uma leitura de Capitães da Areia, de Jorge Amado

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analysis about religious miscegenation expressed by junior characters that make up the work Captains of the Sands, Jorge Amado, published in 1937. The choice of the theme is justified in view of its recurrence in the work of Jorge Amado, in especially in the novel, the subject of our research. In relation to the understanding of the subject, especially support in the works of Darcy Ribeiro, the Brazilian people: the training and the direction of Brazil (1995), in addition to african-Brazilian religious syncretism research, Valdemar Valente (1976) and African syncretism Catholic in Brazil: Lessons of a people in exile, Afonso Soares. With regard to the understanding of this topic in Amado's work, support us on Lilia Moritz Schwarcz work "The artist of miscegenation" which integrates the work of Ilana Seltzer, Jorge Amado's universe (2009), as well as the sociological study Reginald Prandus, Religion and religious syncretism in Jorge Amado, written in 2009. Thus, our analysis delves into the characters that represent more miscegenation and the Brazilian religious syncretism in the chosen corpus. Despite this amadiana work be known for social criticism in abandoned children and adolescents, settles this literary complaint the theme of our spiritual mestizaje arising from our own training as a people. As regards the methodology, we will use in the assumptions of Antonio Candido, elaborated in his Literature and Society (1965).