“O BARDO PRETO DE CATINGUEIRA”: A MEMÓRIA DO ESCRAVIZADOPOETA INÁCIO NO SÉCULO XXI

Abstract

This publication addresses the social memory of Inácio da Catingueira in the 21st century. Through historiographical discourse, use of primary sources found in the digital platform of Sesmarias of the Luso-Brazilian Empire (Plataforma S.I.L.B.), and the theoreticalmethodological status of Oral History, we have hereby analyzed testimonies of oral sources living in the countryside town of Catingueira, located in Vale do Piancó, in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. Despite being an enslaved-poet in the second half of the 19th century, Inácio da Catingueira is recognized as one of the founders of the sung poetry of the repente genre. He became famous for the historical struggle with the farmer Romano do Teixeira, in which he emerged victorious. The continuity of his memory for the local identity is evidenced, in the midst of sensible changes in the historical narrative concerning the poet