Banca de DEFESA: DANIELA SOUZA SILVA

CORDEL LITERATURE: BODY, SOUL AND MOVEMENT An analysis of working with oral literature in the final years of Elementary School as a motivating reading practice at Escola do Campo

Literature of cordel; Literary Literacy; Country school.

After all, what is literature? What results would we have if the literary reading practices promoted in Rural Schools focused on the student and not the author of the text? These were questions that guided the present research, whose objective is to reflect on the place of orality in literature – until now, very tied to writing and other issues that involve markers such as gender and class – and literary literacy in Escola do Campo. Encouraging reading and writing is an emerging issue in schools, especially public schools. However, the lack of motivation and engagement on the part of rural students is noticeable when the purpose of the class is reading books. It is also quite evident the difficulty that most people feel when faced with certain literary texts, as it seems somewhat complex for a reader who is still beginning their training process, as a reader of literary texts, to understand a reality and a language that, in At no point, talk to yours. In view of this, working with oral literature in the final years of Elementary School appears to be a successful proposal, especially in the initial and consolidation stage of students' literary training, which requires, during reading moments, mediation work and the provision of texts that are capable of “seducing” and enchanting readers who are still in the process of construction. Understanding that, in order to truly promote literary literacy, actions are necessary that go far beyond simple access to books, cordel literature, with the strength of orality and body movement driven by the rhythm of the metric, shows becomes an important ally in stimulating this enchantment process that also permeates identity and identification with what is being read. Because, analyzing cordel poetry, far from this reductionist vision and the stigmas that permeate popular literature, it is possible to see how rich this poetry is, which has voice, body and movement. Thus, the present work proposes to reflect on literature and the process of literary formation of students at Escola do Campo based on cordel literature, understanding it as a fruitful path for the formation of these unfinished subjects. The research was theoretically situated within the scope of Literary and Literacy Studies, for this purpose, the apparatus of Eagleton (2006), Durão and Cechinel (2022), Candido (2011), Cruz (2012), Cosson (2019, 2020) and Colomer (2007); as well as cordel literature, based on the conception of Cascudo (2006), Abreu (1999), Zumthor (2018), Haurélio (2013), Marinho and Pinheiro (2012), among others.