Identidade cultural e memória: permissibilidade discursiva através do cordel

Abstract

Cordel is a provocative document for the discursive analysis, permeated by interdiscourses and diffuse and complex relations. It portrays the popular sayings and writings as well as it particularizes the narrative when it enables only one individual (or a few) the ownership of the text. The extract derived from the thesis in development aims to discuss cultural identity and memory in regard to the discursive permissibility present in the cordel. It is a strictly qualitative approach based on the description and interpretation about the cordel, characterizing it and understanding its practices of resignification. It is a documental piece of research focused on the reading and analysis of digital cordel booklets which have been accumulated by means of 6 (six) years of project that has been carried out since 2006 regarding the cordel archive of Biblioteca Átila Almeida (Átila Almeida Library). Preliminarily, it can be stated that the cordel easily practices intertextuality with multiple particularities such as the lack of commitment in relation to the focus on creation as the first goal. Furthermore, the booklets are characterized by Northeastern and Brazilian cultural specificities, from the elected themes with metrical scheme up to the pattern of stanzas, granting identity representation to this document. The analysis involving the resignification process of this cultural product enables reflecting on the “yesterday”, perceiving its discursive marks in reference to “today” as well as the traits that express its cultural identity. It can be concluded that the discussions on this study are founded on the cordel involvement and its dialogue with the Information Science, contributing to the memorialist epistemology of the area in the culture and memory perspective.