Recita sertão: trovadores contemporâneos, poesia, oralidade e extensão na UFAL

Abstract

The present work presents a study on university extension, orality and poetry, developed at the Federal University of Alagoas, Sertão Campus, through the Recita Sertão Project of the Literature course. Understanding the extension as intrinsic to the contemporary university, associated to teaching and research, and having as initial public the public schools of the Region of Delmiro Gouveia, Recita ended up expanding its objectives, notably inside the campus, when integrating in its recitals the others courses, as well as the teaching and technical staff, eager for cultural activities. In his manifesto, Recita emphasizes the oral tradition of the backwoods region from popular culture present in the literature of the string, in the repentistas and singers, that designates, in an allusion to the Iberian literature, of contemporary troubadours. The axis of this work is precisely to highlight orality as the genesis of literature, through a long tradition that comes from the Greeks, passes through troubadour poetry, reaching popular northeastern poetry with the string. In this sense, we pay special attention to the idea of performance present in contemporary expressions. Our research aims to punctuate the performance of these singing students, in which I also include myself, in this struggle for initiation, maintenance and propagation of the art of reciting poetry.