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On Jorge Amado's Brazilian Socialist Realism

Durão, Fabio Akcelrud ; Peruchi, Camila

Journal of narrative theory, 2022-10, Vol.52 (3), p.358-378 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University

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  • Título:
    On Jorge Amado's Brazilian Socialist Realism
  • Autor: Durão, Fabio Akcelrud ; Peruchi, Camila
  • Assuntos: Amado, Jorge (1912-2001) ; Brazilian literature ; Censorship ; Communism ; Literary criticism ; Oppression ; Realism ; Socialist realism ; Stereotypes ; Writing
  • É parte de: Journal of narrative theory, 2022-10, Vol.52 (3), p.358-378
  • Descrição: The stereotypical representation with which you are no doubt acquainted is of Socialist Realism as sub-literature, irredeemably marred by censorship and control, at best aborted imagination, at worst sheer propaganda. In sum, then, in spite of all differences, at least methodologically, the politburo and market can be put side by side as two structures of restriction, a gesture that in turn leads to a displacement of binaries: instead of the opposition Socialist Realism versus freedom, the contrast of two kinds of limitation, perhaps loosely resembling what Guy Debord, in Comments on the Society cf the Spectacle, termed "concentrated" versus "diffuse" spectacle. Furthermore, the Party was not strong enough in the country to propose and implement its own cultural policy; to be sure, it did function as an organizing instance, surprisingly strong for its relatively small size, encouraging certain works and authors while criticizing others, but such power had a limited scope. Before the narrative starts, we read the following note: "In this book I have tried to tell, with the minimum of literature and the maximum of honesty, the life of the workers on the cocoa plantations on the south of Bahia.
  • Editor: Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University
  • Idioma: Inglês
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