As representações do gênero feminino nos cordéis de Leandro Gomes de Barros (1920-1930).

Abstract

The Cordel Literature is an important tool to the historiographic analysis, once it began in oral tradition of poetic narratives. It has been present since antiquity and started in Brazil from the Portuguese colonization, acquiring new meaning and textual form. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze one of the most famous cordel writers of Brazil: Leandro Gomes de Barros (1865-1918), poet of Paraíba, who is considered the originator of cordel printed pamphlets. His works filled an area of creation that must be perceived through various categories: the symbolic, the artistic, the linguistic, the social, the politician, the economic and the historical. From his cordel texts, we will analyze the feminine representations, problematizing the space reserved for women, as well as what were the changes or continuities occurred in the social papers in the 1920s and how these changes were perceived by society, mainly in Paraíba. This study started from the bibliographic research, as well as the Leandro Gomes de Barros‟s works and the studies about women in society.