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Jubiabá (Portuguese pronunciation:) is a Brazilian modernist novel written by Jorge Amado in 1935. It earned Amado an international reputation, being hailed by Albert Camus as “a magnificent and haunting” book.
Jubiabá is a father figure to Baldo. He goes back to the time of slavery (the book is set in the 1930s) and seems to carry on in good form throughout the book. More importantly than a father figure, however, Jubiabá is the local voodoo priest.
Nov 22, 2021 · His first novels were published a few years later: O País do Carnaval (The Country of Carnival, 1931), Cacau (1933) and Jubiabá (1935; English translation 1989). According to Wikipedia, the first novel has not been translated into English.
Jorge Amado, Margaret A. Neves (Tradução) Street urchin Antonia Balduino, inspired by medicine man Jubiaba, abandons his precarious life as a circus boxer and balladeer to join the stuggle of local workers against oppression. 304 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1935.
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Feb 25, 2023 · Jubiabá, a masterpiece of modernist literature written by Jorge Amado, is a novel that captures the essence of Brazilian culture and society. It tells the story of a young Bahian boy named Antônio Balduíno, who struggles to find his place in the world and reconcile his African heritage with his Brazilian identity.
About the author (1984) Jorge Amado, August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001 Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Jorge Amado possesses a talent for storytelling as well as a deep concern...
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' Jorge Amado's novel Jubiab? offers an especially instructive Brazilian case study containing these opposite tensions. The incorporation of Amado's protagonist Antonio Balduino's sambas into the repertoire of urban mass media available in Salvador da Bahia at first seems to foresee a.
