O “cordel do cordel”: deambulações pelo acervo Raymond Cantel

Abstract

THE “CORDEL DO CORDEL” LITERATURE: WANDERING THE RAYMOND CANTEL COLLECTION

This paper proposes a reflection on architextual and metatextual questions suggested by five literary leaflets of the Raymond Cantel collection kept by the Centre de Recherches Latino Américaines (Poitiers, France). Between attachment to tradition and thirst for freedom, popular poets confront their views on an art that, as part of a canon and defending their identity, has been able to state the ambiguity that defines it and to adapt itself to the evolution of society, beyond the folkloric assumptions to which it was sometimes reduced.