Leituras temáticas do cordel Maria Bonita, a mulher-cangaço, de Antonio Teodoro dos Santos, aplicáveis aso anos finais do ensino fundamental.

Abstract

The cordel is a genre of popular expression because it expresses beliefs, values, ideologies and people’s language. Recognizing that cordel can be used as an auxiliary tool in Basic Education, the objective of this research was to analyze the themes present in the cordel Maria Bonita, a mulher-cangaço, by Antônio Teodoro dos Santos, as a suggestion for a thematic reading for basic education, more specifically for 8th grade students. To this end, we discuss the theoretical principles of Discourse Semiotics elaborated by Greimas (1975); describe the themes in cordel Maria Bonita, a mulher-cangaço, by Antônio Teodoro dos Santos through a reading of the cordel; and reflect on themes in Maria Bonita, a mulher-cangaço, by Antônio Teodoro dos Santos, as possible readings for elementary school. For this discussion, we start from the linguistic sign of Saussure (2006) and Hjelmslev (1975). For Discursive Semiotics, we consider Greimas and Courtés (1979), Barros (2005) and Fiorin (2008), in addition to Benveniste (1989), Costa (2011) and Lima Arrais (2011). Regarding the cordel we based ourselves on authors such as Cascudo (1994, 2005) and Saraiva (2020), besides the Dossier of Record: Literatura de Cordel (2018). We also used BNCC (2018) to guide us in the reflections regarding the reading of cordel in the classroom. The methodology adopted in this research was that of discourse analysis and qualitative approach. We selected, from a universe of thirty-eight cordéis, the cordel Maria Bonita, a mulher cangaço, by Antônio Teodoro dos Santos, for analysis, which followed the following analysis criteria: 1) themes that emerge from the discourse selected for analysis; 2) thematic readings that build on the extracted themes. From the figurative linkages, we could list themes such as marriage, vanity, machismo, feminism, heroism, violence, and religiosity, which allowed us thematic readings such as: women can decide which marriage they want for themselves; being brave, fearless, and bold does not exclude female vanity; machismo is always present, in some way, in society; violence only generates more violence; and religiosity manifests itself in the daily life even of those who enjoy violence.