Notas sobre a presença nordestina em Roraima.

Abstract

The Brazilian Amazon is a place of migrants, of the many and diverse people who pursue, in the region, the dream of an earthly heaven and of a land with endless treasures. Similarly to other Amazon areas, the migrants that arrive in Roraima are motivated by various circumstances, influenced in turn by socio-economic conjunctures that have historically approximated the North-East and the North of Brazil. The constant influx of nordestinos in the Amazon and in Roraima produces cultural exchanges and generates modes of existence and specific representations of the experience of the migration and the integration, manifested in various practices and presented in various forms of cultural production. This work discusses the North-Eastern Brazilian presence in Roraima, in light of some possible approximations: North-East/North-Easts, North-East/Roraima. More specifically, this work presents an analysis of the cordel “Roraima terra bendita” (2009), by Otaniel Mendes da Souza, an author from the state of Maranhão, who is based in Roraima since 1982.

Keywords

• roraima
• amazon
• cordel literature
• migrants
• north-east