Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: AMAURI DA SILVA SALVADOR

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : AMAURI DA SILVA SALVADOR
DATA : 03/11/2025
HORA: 19:00
LOCAL: Sala do Google meet
TÍTULO:

BETWEEN THE CROSS AND THE XIRÊ, MEMORIES AND ORALITIES: TERREIRO TRADITIONS PRESENT IN “THE SAINT’S DISAPPEARANCE”, BY JORGE AMADO

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Oraliture; memory; Candomblé; decoloniality; Jorge Amado

PÁGINAS: 86
GRANDE ÁREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
ÁREA: Letras
SUBÁREA: Literatura Brasileira
RESUMO:

This master thesis investigates how oraliture operates as a memory mechanism in transmitting ancestral knowledge from Candomblé temple traditions in Jorge Amado’s novel, O sumiço da Santa – uma história de feitiçaria (1988). The study begins by contextualizing Afro-Brazilian religions in Brazil, highlighting the role of orality in the face of repressive policies, racism, and religious racism, and then examines literature’s capacity to give voice to historically silenced people. Methodologically, it adopts qualitative literary analysis with emphasis on central structural elements of the novel (narrator, temporal dynamics, urban and sacred spatialities, rites, ritual lexicon, and corporeality), articulating the contributions of Halbwachs (2023) and Candau (2012) on memory; Martins (2024) and Vansina (1982) on orality, oraliture, and spiral temporality, added to compendia of Candomblé foundations by Kileuy et al. (2009) and Verger (1981; 1983); Eco (1994) and Iser (1996) on the model reader and the concretization/esthetic updating of the text in reading; Bachelard (2000) and Blanchot (2011) on the poetics of space; and Nogueira (2020) and Bernardino-Costa et al. (2018) on decoloniality, diaspora, and syncretism. Within this analytical path, the aunt–niece relationship between Adalgisa and Manela is taken as a guiding thread to observe a duality of brittle bonds that echo the deepest conflicts of a subjectivity excavated by centuries of coloniality, allowing identity reconfigurations to be registered on the plane of interiority. The results indicate that orikis, dances, foods, vestments, and bodily markings function in the novel as memory technologies that reactivate axé (vital energy) and reinscribe Candomblé temple’s knowledge into the fictional urban arrangement; the text does not didacticize, it summons listening and participation. In reception terms, although it offers swifter figuration and identification to readers familiar with Candomblé traditions, the work does not exclude those without this cultural repertoire, since the text itself guides them through storyline, voices, ritual descriptions, rhythm, and sensory imagery toward successive integrations until a web of meaning coheres. It is concluded that, in the work analyzed, Amado expands the visibility of Candomblé practices and cosmologies, evidencing literature’s mediating function in the continuity and updating of ancestral knowledge under structures of concealment and violence. The research contributes to studies of literature and Afro-Brazilian religions by demonstrating the performativity of word and body as a politics of memory within the aesthetic field.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 131915001 - ALEXANDRE MARIOTTO BOTTON
Interno - 82304001 - JESUINO ARVELINO PINTO
Externo à Instituição - 543.265.321-49 - MAURICIO MACEDO VIEIRA - UEMS