Beecher Stowe e Jorge Amado - Da Cabana ao Trapiche: Uma visão jusliterária da injustiça social

Abstract

Working from the justice and literature perspective this research focuses on the theme of social segregation in Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) - the Portuguese translation Cabana do Pai Tomás is used for references - by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe and Capitães da Areia, 1937 written by Brazilian novelist Jorge Amado. Comparing works from different periods, cultures, and languages help in promoting interrelationship and also in intensifying the interaction between literature and law which has been the objective of this interdisciplinary research. This work presents the contextual relationship and forms of interaction that can be established between two apparently distant fields literature and law. The discussion shows that the theme of social segregation visible by racial and class division in both American and Brazilian literary works is well encompasses through the decadent social injustice focused in both works. To compare these two works we chose comparative theory and discursive mode of Law in Literature as our theoretical base, that shows how Law and State ignore the minority or oppressed groups.