As africanidades no Repente: proposições epistemológicas

Abstract

The present research presented as a thesis the fact that cantoria de repente, traditionally practiced in the Northeast of Brazil, is an afro-descendant manifestation. For such understanding, it was necessary to analyze the first records about the repentistas, in studies published by folklorists, and to carry out a documental analysis of an interdisciplinary nature. For this, it was intended to highlight the state of the art in researches about the emergence of the repente in the Brazilian Northeast. The general objective of this research was: to analyze the africanities in the repente through folkloric studies that have the first recorded repentistas, this analysis will be made from a pan-African and interdisciplinary perspective, so that we can understand the improvised poetry to the sound of instruments, known as repente, and classified as oral genre. As specific objectives in this work, we sought to: trace a foundation, from a historical perspective, about the poetic orality in the Iberian Peninsula and African offspring in its culture, build a panorama of Pan-Africanism as a look at confronting Eurocentrism and the search for a unity of black people in their diversity, examine the presence of oral culture in Afro-descendant people in Brazil and their cultural relations with the repente. The analysis of documents will have a documental and interdisciplinary analysis of a discourse that passes through writing and, therefore, through the voice of others. The investigation made it possible to understand how the eugenics implanted in our public education contributed to a generation of intellectuals who ignored Afro-descendants in our culture, in addition to recovering the presence of Africanities in this culture, since there is no scientific research about their euro descendant, despite this claim to be present among folklorists such as Rodrigues de Carvalho (1928), Leonardo Mota (1955) and Câmara Cascudo (1984), authors of the works that will be analyzed. The arrival of blacks as the first explorers of the hinterlands of Pernambuco and Paraíba, a region in which the first singers were recorded, in addition to the various similarities between this culture and that of the griots studied by Hampaté Bâ (2010), the connection with the diasporic process studied by Anjos (2010), make the present thesis, that the repente is Afro-descendant, the most likely possibility. With that, the research contributes for the black people to know more about their history and to deconstruct the stereotype in which they are seen only as enslaved, something that has been fed through public and private institutions, including schools and school materials. In addition to helping to comply with the Law 10.639/03 and to build a non-Eurocentric discourse and a more tolerant society that is also aware of its Afro-descendant history.