Imagens em perspectiva: memória e poder na literatura de cordel.

Abstract

This work carries out a study about the images linked to cordel literature. The main objective was to problematize these artifacts, discussing them as message carriers and dialogues, as well as elaborators of visual memories that perpetuate and reinvent themselves in various temporalities. This way, it is worth pointing out that the images in this work address different issues that open up in dialogues with images from other media (newspapers, magazines, books). The research is inserted in the field of Cultural History, with the aim of analyze the images as cultural products. To do so, the iconographic sources were understood not only as simple illustrations, but as objects with historicity, intentionalities, as a way of access to cultural practices. For the analysis of the images, the concepts of Pathosformenl (emotion formulas) developed by Aby Warburg (2005) and reappropriated by Carlos Ginzburg (2014) were used; and Visual Culture, a concept that came from the United States in the 1990s and which has a relevant contribution with the works of Ana Maud, Paulo Knauss and Ulpiano de Menezes. These concepts were used with the intention of presenting their functionality to the images of cordel literature, which is understood in this research as a potentiator of cultural, political and social narratives.