Candomblé e direitos humanos na linha de frente das lutas do Obá de Xangô da Bahia

Abstract

Jorge Amado's political activism in the Communist Party is a separate chapter in the history of communism in Brazil, which turned 100 years old on March 25th. It is also something remarkable in his work, to the point that Brazilian literary critics, of the Uspian tradition, consider it a form of partisan pamphlet from our left. In this exhibition, we intend to carry out a brief discussion about his political struggles, of which religious and racial issues stand out, which led Jorge Amado to create a bill, during the period he served as constituent deputy for the PCB, in 1946, ensuring religious freedom in Brazil. Here, his friendship with the Candomblé people who honored him with titles such as Obá de Xangô and Ogã de Iansã also stands out; in addition to the way critics labeled him a regionalist and a pamphlet writer. However, this is a way of paying homage to both the most famous of the twelve Obás of Xangô da Bahia, and Partidade, on this centenary. In methodological terms, it is a Foucauldian essayistic reading of these facts and events that doubly marked the life of Jorge Amado and Communism in Brazil, as we make use of part of the theoretical machinery of the communist militant of the PCF (French Communist Party ), Michel Foucault, as will to truth, comment, discourse, authorship, work, discontinuity (in continuity) and dispersion.