Cantando o sertão em A Inspiração nordestina: a poesia de cordel de Patativa do Assaré

Abstract

This study sought to analyze the work Inspiração nordestina (2007) by the author Patativa do Assaré, published for the first time in 1956. In summary, Patativa do Assaré was a great defender of social causes, and fought fiercely so that inequalities were annihilated, singing , reciting and writing in his strings, his longings, and the longings of his people, and compatriots of movements. The research started by focusing on the arrival and formation of string literature in Brazil, going through its characteristics, trajectory, most influential string players, up to the current way of propagation. Then, a general overview of the author's life and work is made, highlighting some of his works, and finally, the general analysis of the work object of our research is reached, emphasizing the plot and space described in the cordel poems. This work was based on Melo (2011), Rebouças (2017), damage emphasis on the description of the sertões, studied in each thesis used. Contributions from the Brazilian Cordel Academy (ABLC), Nogueira (2017), Santos Junior (2017), Santos (2013), among other scholars in the field, were also used. In this way, the research is bibliographic and qualitative, whose analysis of the work is linked to literary studies contemporary to the author. As Patativa (2003) says about the work, instead of the prefurme and luxury of the square, it has a dull smell of bitter sweat, sweat caboco that comes from the fields, hungry, tired and burned by the sun.