“Escutando a ‘voz de um homem rude’”: representações da cultura popular na obra de Antônio Henriques Neto.

Abstract

The paper studies the literary work of Antônio Henriques Neto, poet from Picuí, whose poetry realize resizing the various manifestations of country / Northeast popular oral tradition. Divided into three books - Poesias Dispersas (1979); Poesia, Folclore e Nordeste (1985); Voz de um Homem Rude (2001) – the Henriques Neto poetry is permeated by traditional values and customs, gestated within the Hinterland and transmitted - often orally - by generations of sertanejos through time. The poetic effort to give to (re)construct significant elements of the various forms of cultural manifestations gestated by inlanders. The poet from Picuí – a work of cultural mediation – is an “producer author”, which marks what takes as popular culture, poetically articulating a traditional/folkloric past through a narrative of the experience that builds representations. Through “metaphor” a backwoods reality, poetry by Antônio Henriques Neto – represented in multiple images of man and nature – presents to us as a need to view and say Hinterland and inlanders who are rude, strong and honored Antônio Henriques Neto is a cultural mediator who builds representations of country pop culture, whose main characters are lush nature and a harsh, strong and honorable backcountry man.