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Between Descartes and Yemanja. The Question of Truth, Belief and the Existence of Magic in the Narrative of Jorge Amado
Author(s) -
Héctor Gómez Navarro
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
mitologías hoy
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.143
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 2014-1130
DOI - 10.5565/rev/mitologias.76
Subject(s) - humanities , magic (telescope) , philosophy , narrative , art , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
En la narrativa del brasileño Jorge Amado (Bahía, 1912 – 2001) se advierte una evolución en la percepción del escritor respecto a las tradiciones religiosas del pueblo afrobrasileño. Amado, de etnia y cultura europeas, acepta en un primer momento la cosmovisión desacralizada y racionalista propia de Occidente, añadiendo el materialismo marxista. Conforme avanza su escritura y se afianza el contacto con el pueblo afrobrasileño, inicia un proceso de cambio en sus supuestos que desemboca en la aceptación de la cosmovisión mestiza candomblé. Esta progresión, nos permite reflexionar acerca de dos temas de gran importancia: el mestizaje intelectual y cultural y la toma de conciencia de la especificidad de la identidad latinoamericana.In the narrative of Brazilian author Jorge Amado (Bahía, 1912-­-2001) we notice an evolution in the writer's perception about the Afro-Brazilian religious traditions. Amado, European in an ethnic and cultural sense, accepts first the Western, desacralized and rationalist worldview, in addition to his Marxist materialist thought. As his writing progresses and he develops a contact with Afro-Brazilian people, it begins a process of change in his assumptions that ends up in the acceptance of Candomble mestizo worldview. Jorge Amado progression allows us to reflect on two important issues such a as intellectual and cultural miscegenation and the awareness of the specifity of Latin American identity

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