Jorge Amado: a curseed writer finds your own Lisbon, forbidden city, imagined city

Abstract

This work presents some reflections on writer Jorge Amado in Portugal, taking by north Navegação de cabotagem (1994). In this memoir, Amado reports a series of events in his interaction with Portuguese intellectuals, artists and writers and in his relationship with the city of Lisbon, which was initially marked by the prohibition of the communist writer entering this country. Reports are commented in this article that bring images and representations that are important to the culture and the people Portuguese. Such representations expose a political context hard affected by Estado Novo, when the government of Oliveira Salazar disseminated a «Portugality» discourse, extending it to its ultramarine colonies, as a way of controlling critical thinking of the dictatorial regime.