A história do cangaço através da literatura de cordel no século XX

Abstract

The objective of this work is to report the golden years or beginning of cordel literature on its most widespread and described theme, which was the cangaço, beginning with the Canudos War and ending with Lampião's death. Cordel has always dealt with the past, before and after cangaço, with themes contemporaneous to cangaço, but the theme of the work or its context is only interesting for cordel with its poetic chronicles and popular stories about the two movements, one cultural and the other social, showing that the lives of the first poets are contemporary, as well as the lives of the most famous cangaceiros. Based on historiography and cordel, this work seeks to know a little about the scenario where cordel was born, to know the northeastern region of Brazil and what it faced at the beginning of the 20th century.