Nem só sertão, nem só litoral: múltiplos espaços nas canções do Pessoal do Ceará

Abstract

In this research, we propose to present the discursive strategies employed by the group of singers and composers from Ceará well-known as “Pessoal do Ceará”, in order to invest in the regional discursive topography and to define an identification with the birthplace. The “Pessoal do Ceará” is characterized by circular investment process within the topography category and by building the Ceará/Northeast almost always from the standpoint of the multiple spaces, instituing an identification with a constitutively plural place, which surpasses the well-known metonymies created respectively by means of the discursive practices of Literature and Tourism Marketing, as for example taking the backlands or the seacoast for the Northeast.