Num velho trapiche abandonado, o território é dos Capitães da Areia: Geografia e Literatura nas territorialidades da obra de Jorge Amado

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the relationship between geography and literature through the analysis of different types of territories present in the romance of the writer Jorge Amado (Salvador - Bahia) Captains of the Sand, published in 1937. We have analyzed the different forms of power relations and disputes that the writer Jorge Amado represented in his work. It is also understood I literature also has the power to represent a given reality bringing to life elements and moments of a certain past to which geography should study and discuss. In the case investigated disputes involving spaces for street children, prostitutes and their ways of survival in a society that excludes and segregates. For this was used as a theoretical framework for a more qualified discussion authors as Raffestin (1993), Cândido (2006), Lajolo (1989) and Saquet (2008). Thus it became a job that craved contemplate the discussions arising from the literary theory, that is, the importance and meaning of literature to society, as well as the possibilities of studying geography from the literature. The bias highlighted in this work is the territory precisely because of its political character, capable of generating tensions and disputes that defines identities and establishing certain representations of social groups.