Introduction 1. Religion and Revolution: The Allegorical Subtexts of
Capitaes da areia 2. Ambiguity Lost: Jorge Amado's A morte e a morte de
Quincas Berro Dagua 3. Stirking a Balance: Amado and the Critics 4.
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon: Rewriting the Discourse of the Native 4.
Malandro Heaven: Amado's Utopian Vision 5. Bitter Harvest: Violent
Oppression in Cacau and Terra do sem fim 6. Dressing Down the Warrior
Maiden: Plot, Perspective and Gender Ideology in Tereza Batista cansada de
guerra 7. the Vox Populi in the Novels of Jorge Amado and John Steinbeck 8.
A Character in Spite of Her Author: Dona Flor Liberates Herself from Jorge
Amado 9. Jorge Amado and the Classical Tradition Aristonphanes in Bahia 10.
Jorge and Zelia Amado's Long Visit to the Pennsylvania State university in
1971: Surprise and Success 11. The Early Jorge Amado 12. From Lundu and
Modinha to Samba de Enredo and MPB: Popular Music and the Fiction of Jorge
Amado 13. Questioning Jorge Amado's Fictional Women of Color: Tereza
Batista as Herione or Victim 14. O Sumico da Santa (The War of the Saints)
: A Postmodern Reconstruction of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary Bahian
Society 15. A Postcolonial Reading of a Colonized Malandro 16. Hybridity
vs. Pluralism: Culture, Race, and Aesthetics in Jorge Amado 17. The
Immanent Imp: Humor in the Later Works of Jorge Amado