Name: LUCIMAR SIMON
Publication date: 20/10/2023
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Advisor |
Summary: The novel Captains of the Sands (1937), by Jorge Amado, presents the daily life of a group of
abandoned minors in the city of Salvador. This thesis aims to present theoretical-critical
arguments that explain how Amado’s literature and the “Captains of the Sands” gang can be
considered agents of resistance to the biopolitical project of annihilation of others. Based on
theoretical foundations in Adorno, Foucault, Mbembe, Ariès, Del Priore and others, we argue
that the group of street children, who are considered misfortunes, social stigmas, and
undesirable in society, become a resistance force against representatives of the bourgeoisie and
government institutions of the State and the Press in order not to be extirpated by a biopolitical
project of ongoing annihilation in Brazilian society from the 1930s onwards. Family, State,
Press, and Church are the social institutions that form the regulatory base of a quadripartite set
of correlations of forces and their representations generate the ideas and forces that are at the
core of textual composition, and which continue to permeate the entire development of the
novel.
