A influência do movimento modernista para a construção da identidade gastronômica brasileira: a comida como foco narrativo no livro Gabriela cravo e canela de Jorge Amado

Abstract

This bibliographic research analyzes the book Gabriela Cravo and Canela by Jorge Amado written in the period of the modernist movement, and has as general objective the observation of the influence of that movement in the formation of the Brazilian cultural identity sketched through the gastronomy. Starting with the investigation of the historical context of the modernist movement, especially its second phase (1930-1945), it is noted that there is a search for the construction of the Brazilian cultural profile. For the purposes of this research, it was appreciated in the aforementioned work by Jorge Amado, which seeks to recreate speech and national social and cultural customs. In the chosen book one notices the construction of the personage around the sensuality of the cook and its relation with the Arab Nacib, having like sign the Bahian food. Thus, it is concluded from the analysis of the book Gabriela clove and cinnamon that the gastronomy was quite influential in modernist literature, acting as a catalyst for social and cultural relations. It is also concluded that by strengthening and promoting food habits, culinary and gastronomic rites through art, modernism is a fundamental part of the formation of the Brazilian gastronomic identity.