A LITERATURA DE CORDEL E A (RE)CONSTRUÇÃO DA MEMÓRIA: OS FOLHETOS DE RAIMUNDO SANTA HELENA NO PERÍODO DA REDEMOCRATIZAÇÃO DO BRASIL

Abstract

This paper discusses the relevance of the cordel literature produced by Raimundo Santa Helena, during the period of political openness in Brazil, for the reconstruction of a collective memory about the historical period experienced and its role in the construction of a political consciousness in his reading public. The general objective of this work is to understand how the literature produced by Santa Helena functioned as a vehicle for information and awareness, while critically exposing the precarious reality faced by the northeastern population after the dictatorship. For this bibliographic research, the analyses of the booklets Cartilha do Povo (1982) and Democracia nas Urnas (1985) were made, based on the studies of Abreu (1999), Luyten (1992), Sarlo (2007), Benjamin (1996), and Santiago (1998). In light of the theoretical framework, one can verify the potentiality of Raimundo Santa Helena's pamphlets as a pedagogical instrument for the popular classes, acting in the democratization of knowledge and in the reconstruction of subjective notions about the collective reality experienced.