Jorge Amado was one of the greatest modern Brazilian writers and the most popular. His career began in 1931, continuing to his death in 2001. As a serious far-left political activist, he was exiled and expelled, but returned to Brazil in 1954. He focused on writing fiction solely, with an interest in depicting his country’s lively culture and diversity of people. We will study one of his best loved works, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), a classic and comic tale of a woman’s struggle for gratification within the rich complexity of multi-layered perspectives.
Suggested reading: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (Translated by Harriet De Onis) Alfred A. Knopf, publishers. Please read the entire book in advance of the first session.