Árida: o despertar do sertão e a expressão da cultura nordestina através dos elementos constitutivos de um jogo digital.

Abstract

This study analyzes how a digital game called Árida: backland’s awakening help to build a Brazilian Northeastern popular cultural representation and to express the Northeastern cultural identity, considering the games as activities that precede and reflect on human culture, Huizinga (2018). Based on the conception of popular culture by Bakhtin (2008; 2010) and Arantes (1990), on elements existent in the digital games Fardo, (2013) and on the conception of Pedagogy of Multiliteracies Cope e Kalantzis (2000) e Rojo (2012), this research states that Northeastern cultural manifestations appear and tell a story of the Northeast region in Brazil through objects that refer to economic activities, regional cuisine, and the drought. Beyond the exhibition of such objects and the composition of the game, this study suggests that these elements narrate about the Northeast region with its challenges and problems, as well as indicate the possibility of resignification of the Northeastern culture.