Tent of Miracles (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Amado
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Plot: Magical Realism
- Time of Work: From 1968 to 1969, with flashbacks to the years from 1868 to 1943
- Setting: Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil
- Principal Characters: Pedro Archanjo (Ojuobá, Eyes, Fausto Pena, Nilo d’Ávila Argolo de Araújo, Lídio Corró, Ana Mercedes, Rosa de Oxalá
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Racism, Blacks, Nineteenth century, Eighteenth century, Brazil or Brazilians, Intermarriage, Circuses or carnivals
- Locales: Bahia, Brazil
The Novel
Most of the story takes place during different time periods in the old neighborhood of Pelourinho, where a type of a free university of Afro-Brazilian culture holds sway, owing to the practices of popular mestizo poets, artists, storytellers, musicians, craftsmen, singers, capoeiristas (dancers of a self-defense sport), black magicians, cult priests, and folk healers. This natural campus, actually situated near the state’s official school of medicine, has as its main building a shop called the Tent of Miracles where Master Lídio Corró runs his printing...
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