Cidade das mulheres em Quincas Berro D’Água: representações femininas em narrativas de Jorge Amado

Abstract

There were many women who marked Jorge Amado's poetic, chronicling and untimely writing. Amid fantasy, miscegenation and sexualization, female characters questioned normative standards in order to overcome oppression, discourse and stigma. This article proposes to present a reading about some female representations present in the novel “The death and death of Quincas Berro D’Água” (1961), by the Bahian writer. The analysis of the text seeks to problematize the social role played by the characters represented by women, who in the work reveal how colonial intentions reverberated in the construction of the identities of different women, also in the mid-20th century. Based on the experiences observed in the “ganqueriras”, prostitutes and in the so-called “family women”, we will notice how social constructs associated with power and control devices materialized in the Salvador city. Through labor, political, cultural, symbolic and affective relationships, it will be noted how these constructions operated from the perspective of race and gender, in the production of existential geographies in the city of Salvador at that time.