{"id":36115,"date":"2014-03-26T17:36:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T17:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36115"},"modified":"2014-11-21T02:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T02:34:28","slug":"playing-chinese-whispers-the-official-gossip-of-racial-whitening-in-jorge-amados-tenda-dos-milagres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36115","title":{"rendered":"Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official \u2018Gossip\u2019 of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado&#8217;s Tenda dos Milagres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/03\/25\/fmls.cqu006.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official \u2018Gossip\u2019 of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado&#8217;s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Tenda dos Milagres<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\" target=\"_blank\">Forum for Modern Language Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/50\/2.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 196-211<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/fmls\/cqu006\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/fmls\/cqu006<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:hw321@cam.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Helen Lima de Sousa<\/strong><\/a>, Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies<br \/>\n<em>Clare College, University of Cambridge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the possible inauthentic nature of official discourse, as political, religious or intellectual elites manipulate facts in a process that parallels the childhood game of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chinese_whispers\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Whispers<\/a>. Considering this process of manipulation, and the false messages it produces, it is suggested that such discourses, while official, resemble the assumed inauthentic nature of gossip. Within the framework of this concept, the article explores the fusion of official and unofficial discourse in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Amado\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Amado&#8217;s<\/a> novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tent_of_Miracles_%28novel%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tenda dos milagres<\/em><\/a> (1969). Initially analysing Amado&#8217;s fictionalization of the nineteenth-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bahia\" target=\"_blank\">Bahian<\/a> doctor Raimundo Nina Rodrigues and his theories on racial whitening, the article subsequently investigates the continued manipulation of fact by the fictional Bahian political and intellectual elite of the 1960s as the image of the protagonist Pedro Archanjo is transformed, during the official posthumous celebrations of his life, from a poor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a> who questioned the status quo, to an obedient, white intellectual.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/fmls.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2014\/03\/25\/fmls.cqu006.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official \u2018Gossip\u2019 of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado&#8217;s Tenda dos Milagres Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2014 pages 196-211 DOI: 10.1093\/fmls\/cqu006 Helen Lima de Sousa, Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies Clare College, University of Cambridge This article explores the possible inauthentic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,1196,8],"tags":[5028,17128,3307],"class_list":["post-36115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-forum-for-modern-language-studies","tag-helen-lima-de-sousa","tag-jorge-amado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}