Tieta, the Goat Girl (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jorge Amado
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Plot: Comic melodrama
- Time of Work: 1965
- Setting: The fictitious town of Sant’Ana do Agreste in the north of Bahia, Salvador, and São Paulo, Brazil
- Principal Characters: Antonieta Esteves Cantarelli (Tieta), Perpétua Esteves Batista, Elisa Esteves Simas, Astério Simas, Ricardo (Cardo), Ascânio Trindade, Dr. Mirko Stefano (Mirko the Magnificent), Skipper Dário Queluz, Leonora Cantarelli, Dona Carmosina Sluizer da Consolação
- Genres: Long fiction, Melodrama
- Subjects: 1960’s, Sex or sexuality, Prostitution or prostitutes, Brazil or Brazilians, Small-town life, South America or South Americans
- Locales: São Paulo, Brazil, Bahia, Brazil, Sant’Ana do Agreste, Brazil
The Novel
The action of the novel (its full title is Tieta, the Goat Girl: Or, The Return of the Prodigal Daughter, Melodramatic Serial Novel in Five Sensational Episodes, with a Touching Epilogue, Thrills and Suspense!) takes place largely in the fictitious northern Bahian backwater of Sant’Ana do Agreste, a tiny and politically insignificant community whose backwardness is exemplified by its reliance on a none-too-reliable generator as its sole source of electric power. At the opening of the story, Tieta’s sisters Perpétua and Elisa, accompanied by the ubiquitous...
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