Travessias (Aug 2020)
Popular poetry and religious signs: art and criticity in the Patative song
Abstract
Antônio Gonçalves da Silva, Patativa do Assaré, acted as an enunciator subject who used the popular culture of the Northeast for the elaboration of a work whose theme encompasses all aspects related to the formation of the sertaneja identity. Coming from a colonial culture, which instilled Christianity as a primordial aspect of moral formation, and also given over to institutional oblivion and contempt, religiosity served as a north and support for the poor populations of the Northeast region. Thus, religious signs were crucial for the production of popular poetry, so it is important to understand how this theme, in popular poetry, contributed to the awareness and construction of criticality, since the public to whom this production was directed, there has always been a margin of universal social rights.
