Subaltern Voices from the Sertão. Cultural History of Broadside Ballad in Brazil
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.78434" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.78434</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BL2023-1-12" target="_blank" >10.5817/BL2023-1-12</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Subaltern Voices from the Sertão. Cultural History of Broadside Ballad in Brazil
Original language description
This paper analyzes the role of cordel - the Brazilian contribution to the global tradition of the broadside ballad - as a reservoir of cultural memory of the Nordeste, the region where cordel tookroot in Brazil. Cordel is at once perceived as a repertoire of representations, images, and meanings that have shaped messages on social order. The focus here is on transformations that have occurredin cordel titles over time and, in particular, how gender and ethnicity have been represented in cordel texts during different periods and locations in a region that, even now, has been characterizedby latifundism, the absence of the state, and abysmal social inequalities. To this end, the examination of cordel titles by José Francisco Borges (1935), Jarid Arraes (1991), and Auritha Tabajara(1980) in this context is grounded in a cultural studies framework. Among other perspectives, we engage with the question posed by Spivak to highlight the cordel as a venue in which the subalternvoices of the colonized and otherwise marginalized segments of Brazil's population have expressed themselves historically until the present. Whereas cordel traditionally represented a space in which the voices and concerns of ordinary Brazilians from the rural hinterland found their way into the public arena, new possibilities of publishing cordel post-2000 have opened it up to new narratives from the otherwise silenced actors of Brazilian society and history, including female authorship,and Afro-Brazilians and the Indigenous as protagonists of their own representation. This paper concludes by pointing to how cordel has been notably successful in accommodating Brazil's diverse social realities. Its narratives now speak in the multiple voices of the sertão, thus inviting its readership to rethink Brazil's cultural history, historical memory, and symbolic imaginaries.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Bohemica litteraria
ISSN
1213-2144
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Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1/2023
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
207-224
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85173779380