Romaria dos versos: mulheres autoras na ressignificação do cordel

Abstract

This work has as it's aim evaluating the feminine presence in the "cordel" from the concept of re-signification, indicating Crato and Juazeiro do Norte as the empirical supporting empirical field. For this, an important movement was evaluated, as it begins in 1970, related to the so-called popular culture, where the "cordel" was given new meanings. In this valorization process of the "popular", a new cultural field was shaped and this field fomented a new production, divulging and consumption of this kind of poetry which at the same time was related to an empirical field whose materialization is found in the Cariri region, Ceará, specifically in the afore-mentioned cities, a unique place for the production of this poetry. It was found in this research that women, authors of "cordel", had a special role in the picking up again of this kind literature in present days where, starting from it's theme, content and difIerent means of expression, a new narration arises. At the time 24 women, authors of "cordel", were recorded among which Sebastiana Gomes de Almeida (Bastinha) and Salete Maria da Silva stand out, both from the afore-mentioned cities and members of the groups here revie ed - Academia dos Cordelistas do Crato and Sociedade dos Cordelistas Mauditos. This research had as it's theoretical reference the field idea as developed by the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the re-signification notion, as supported by the researcher Gilmar de Carvalho, and having at last, as support for discussing question as authenticity and tradition in the "cordel" the help of Nestor de Carvalho.