Você já foi à Bahia, moça? Não! Então vá: guia de ruas e mistérios de Jorge Amado

Abstract

This research seeks to understand Jorge Amado's discourse on the city of Salvador based on his work Bahia of All-Saints: a guide to the streets and mysteries of the city of Salvador, focusing on his choices and renunciations. Therefore, it seeks to reach his choices based on the heritage, political contexts, literary circles, sociability connections, and economic scenarios of the time, and his renunciations of spatial hierarchies and social distinctions, approaching the people and their culture. In this sense, the work aims to analyze the guide as literature about the city towards Amado's agency just like to reach the Brazilian historical context on which the author's trajectory to produce the guide took place. From this, the work undertakes a qualitative approach understood as exploratory to tense Jorge Amado's narrative and what it intercedes from the contexts chosen about the city of Salvador. Thus, the research presented does not lose sight of the plasticity of the work, the unusual way of presenting Salvador, the urbanistic impacts of the first decades of the 20th century, the emergence of tourism in Brazil, and the identity signification.