As mulheres na literatura de cordel: representações e autoria (1907-2013).

Abstract

From a past of silence, exclusion and stereotypes to a gift of prominence. This research historically problematizes the representations, the authorship and the self representation of the women in cordel literature. From the perspective of Cultural History (CHARTIER, 1991) this monograph is the result of research on a set of leaflets consulted in the digital collections of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation (FRB) and the National Folklore and Popular Culture Center (CNFCP) When twines that deal with the female figure were analyzed, as well as produced by the women themselves. The main objective of this work is to understand how representations about women have been changing over time. In the first moment, twines of Leandro Gomes de Barros (1865-1918), José Costa Leite (1927-), João Martins de Athayde (1880-1959) and Francisco das Chagas Batista (1882-1930), authors presenting the woman As a central character in many poems. These leaflets allowed us to understand the representations about women in the early twentieth century in Brazil from the male perspective, that is, how these authors portrayed women in their compositions. In the second moment we discussed the turn of the game, that is, how these representations were changed and we took as a central landmark of this change the publication in 1938 of the book The devil's violin, or the value of honesty, authored by Maria das Neves Batista Pimentel, Whose work was published under the pseudonym Altino Alagoano (name of her husband). The work of Maria das Neves Batista Pimentel paved the way for other women to follow in their footsteps and become protagonists of the work itself. In this sense, the third moment of this work analyzes the feminine authorship and the representations constructed by the women themselves in the present time. From the lines of Maria de Lourdes Aragão Catunda (Dalinha Catunda, 1952-), Josenir Amorim Alves de Lacerda (1953-) and Maria Godelivie Cavalcante de Oliveira (1959-), we sought to understand self-representation, this time on the optics of Women since there are now a significant number of women who dedicate themselves to this art. All the selected cords bring the woman as the main focus, being represented or self-representing. In this research, we start from the problematization of the woman initially represented in a negative way, prejudiced, stereotyped - present in the leaflets of the first generation of cordelistas and even in the pioneering work of Maria das Neves Batista Pimentel - and we arrive at the contemporaneity in which the leaflets demonstrate That women are increasingly aware of their role in society and of the need to fight for equal rights.