"MEU LIVRO DE CORDEL" THROUGH TIMES, VERSES AND MEMORIES: RESISTANCE IN IDENTITIES

Abstract

Cora Coralina's work resonates in Brazilian Literature as one of the most genuine voices of women to elevate popular poetry and regional culture to the place of contemporary concerns that attest to the universal character of her productions. A woman of traditional education and, perhaps for this reason, from an early age away from writing, she experienced marriage, family rejection, worked as a sweet baker and found some recognition after the release of her first book only in her maturity, after her 70s. However, her early inclination to literature together with a keen eye for her historical moment led her to carry out a work that moves through various themes, styles and guidelines between plots that allude to the narrative, the lyrical and the memorial of the records of places that they reverberate as microcosms of historical events whose echoes focus on contemporaneity, confirming the actuality of her writing. Thus, the analysis of Meu Livro de Cordel (1976) alludes to issues that dialogue (BAKHTIN, 1997) with studies in Literature (CANDIDO, 2006), genre (MACHADO, 2003) and memory (CANDAU, 2014).