The Spontaneity of the Preservation of Cultural Memory in Orality: A Study Based on the Works of Popular Poets Vicente Preto and Pedro Tenório de Lima
Orality; popular culture; cultural memory; cultural scene; collective memory; poetry; reception studies.
This research examines the cultural representations in the works of two popular and illiterate poets from the Sertão do Pajeú in Pernambuco, Brazil: "A Caçada Mal- Assombrada" by Vicente Preto, and three poems with a galloping (Galope à beira- mar) structure by the seaside by Pedro Tenório de Lima. The study seeks to understand the origins of these poets' imagination, exploring the underlying motivations behind their creation, as well as their respective contributions to the recording and resignification of a cultural scene that is still, from some perspectives, in transformation. It analyzes how their expression, shaped by localism and regional characteristics, reflects symbols and linguistic peculiarities stemming from migratory movements that influenced the locality. The research also investigates the contribution of the imagination to the memory and historicity of the local, prompting
reflections on the interaction between poetry, society, and cyberspace in the contemporaneity of the Brazil northeastern hinterlands, also including studies of reception linked to these works. Among the main authors worked on in the theoretical framework are: Antônio Cândido (1987 and 1988), Câmara Cascudo (1984 and 2000), Claude Lévi-Strauss (1955), Gayatri Spivak (2010), Homi Bhabha (2013), João Sautchuk (2009), Maurice Halbwachs (1990), Marcos Siscar (2016), Mikhail Bakhtin (1987), Paul Zumthor (1993), Stuart Hall (2003, 2006), and Walter
Benjamin (1987 and 2008).