The law told in Terras do sem-fim by Jorge Amado

Abstract

This work performs an Interpretative analysis of Terras do sem-fim by Jorge Amado (1943), In which secular land issues emerge and are confronted In the context of the cocoa cycle. The study demarcates the Individuals benefited by a conception of land right founded on Brazilian coronelism. It is resorted to the proposal of François Ost (2004) In which the author argues that law told, staged In literature, contributes to the Interpretation of law. In immersion In the particular as the shortest path to the universal, it is concluded that the novel exposes a scenario regulated by a certain conception of law In post-abolition time. The narrative denounces the prohibitions to secular possession as a legal form of access to the right to property, by ethnic-racial criteria, as well as exerts Instituting functions, that is, it stimulates the creation of imaginaries of new socio-historical significances, which are also reparatory and restitutive of slavery.