Capitães de Salvador: as representações do urbano e das relações sociais na obra Capitães de Areia de Jorge Amado.

Abstract

The literary narrative can serve us as a "prime source" that enables us up with times and places unknown to us. This work was guided by the relationship between history and literature, aims at presenting the possible representations of the city of Salvador and their social relations through the work of Jorge Amado (1912-2001). We chose as a source novel Captains of the Sands (1937) which relates life experience of a group of abandoned children, the work homonyms, showing the struggle of individuals in sharp dichotomy City High vs. Low City. For the development of our analysis we start with a literature review on the subject and biographical writer. The theoretical contribution to cultural history, namely the concepts of Roger Chartier (representations) and Michel de Certeau (cultural practices, tactics), among others, and the debate about the uses literature as a historiographical source. Our considerations are that the literary narrative can present as a representation of reality. Developed what Sandra Pesavento called for "Cultural History of urban" that would be the proposal to study the city through its representations. We expect this work to be another contribution to the urban studies and their sociability, showing that these, largely occur in a disharmonious way.