Language, tradition and revolt

Jorge Amado and modernisms

Authors

  • Rodolfo Oliveira Paiva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48075/rlhm.v18i31.27518

Keywords:

Jorge Amado, literatura brasileira, modernismo

Abstract

This paper discusses the relationship between the novelist Jorge Amado and the utterances and social discourses of the 1920s and 1930s in Brazil, based mainly on one of his novels, Jubiabá(1935). It aims to understand the relations of meaning, which emerge from his word and his literary project, with those enunciated by two of the main cultural movements of the period, the Northeastern Regionalism and the Modernism of São Paulo. Furthermore, through the main comparison with Macunaíma(ANDRADE M. de, 2017a), it seeks to reflect on the concordances and the distances, both in the aesthetic and in the political plans, with those movements, as well as to the broader cultural context of Brazil, which motivate and the emerge from the writing of the work of Amado, in his years of maturity and formation.

Author Biography

  • Rodolfo Oliveira Paiva

    Mestre em Letras pela Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). E-mail: ro31paiva@gmail.com. Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8355489855524917.

Published

01/07/2022

Issue

Section

PESQUISA EM LETRAS NO CONTEXTO LATINO-AMERICANO E LITERATURA, ENSINO E CULTURA

How to Cite

PAIVA, Rodolfo Oliveira. Language, tradition and revolt: Jorge Amado and modernisms. Journal of Literature, History and Memory, [S. l.], v. 18, n. 31, p. 236–254, 2022. DOI: 10.48075/rlhm.v18i31.27518. Disponível em: https://saber.unioeste.br/index.php/rlhm/article/view/27518. Acesso em: 5 oct. 2026.