Características de crônica na literatura de cordel: caso dos folhetos das eleições de Lula em 2002 e 2006

Abstract

This paper to aim to study the characteristics of chronicle that are in Literature of Cordel. For this, we use authors that do the concept both styles, after we analyze the characteristics that liken it. Characteristics like subjective, memory register, routine's subject, usual language, ambiguity, that permits place them between Literature, Communication and History are considered when we analyze the twelve "chapbooks" chosen to do the study in case. Also we think in social function of Cordel, a kind of style that can inform, to give an opinion, register a collective memory. We chose chapbooks about Lula because of the big representation that this image mean to the northeast’s imaginary, place where the majority of "cordéis" are from. Nevertheless, we can't say that cordel is a chronicle, we bring together, based in characteristics that are similars in them, two kind of expressions that have start in the everyday.