Literatura e oralidade no cordel: a importância da identidade e memória cultural nordestina

Abstract

Cordel literature is deeply linked to the Northeast. Due to its social characteristics, it played a role of great importance for the region, contributing to promoting a change in the lives of country people, always faced with adversity. The poets' rhyming verses greatly influenced the social condition of northeastern people at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, through their relevant educational function. Through the socialization that reading the cordel leaflets requires, the simple people of the time found moments of leisure and stayed informed. The cordelist, using the same language as his fellow countrymen, exposes the feelings that are common to them, which makes popular culture translated into the art of cordel a carrier of transmission of the identity of the northeastern people. Oral narratives date back to Greek antiquity, such as Homer's famous Odyssey, which is understood as one of the greatest Western works that most influenced our literary culture. The present work studies literature, cordel orality and the identity of northeastern cultural memory in texts from the oral tradition and also reflects on the concept of identity and memory, based on theorists such as Idelette Muzart-Fonseca dos Santos (2006), Hall (2004), and Le Goff (2003), with the application of concepts in the analysis of texts by Patativa do Assaré, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, among others. The methodology used consists of bibliographical research, in which excerpts were taken from works by authors who studied the subject and from academic works published on websites, which served as support for the theory. The aim, through this analysis, is to understand the role of cordel literature in preserving and valuing Northeastern cultural identity and memory, in order to recognize how orality and popular narratives contribute to the formation of cultural traditions. , investigating the origins and evolution of cordel literature in northeastern Brazil