A literatura tradicional oral luso-brasileira : as cantigas e performaces dos ternos de reis herdadas dos açores e praticadas em Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil

Abstract

Esta tese tem por objetivo primordial trazer ao âmbito da Academia um saber popular, anônimo e folclórico, representado pelas cantigas de Ternos de Reis, pesquisadas em Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brasil, cuja origem remonta aos Açores, Portugal. Buscamos realizar neste trabalho uma exegese de tais cantigas a partir das noções de folclore (Cascudo), cultura popular (Burke), performance (Schechner, Zumthor), mitos (Kerényi, Campbell), arquétipos (Jung), festas religiosas (Bakhtin, Perez), poesia (Spina, Trevisan) e, por fim, a relação de tais instâncias com a voz dos subalternos e as epistemologias do Sul (Santos). Dessa maneira, tentamos abordar as cantigas de Ternos de Reis sob diversos aspectos e mostrar ao leitor atento a riqueza da cultura popular.

This thesis aims to bring to the Academic world, a new and popular knowledge which main characteristics are the anonymous aspects of its feature and also its folkloric way of existence. This new knowledge is represented by the Christmas Chants brought to Brazil by the Azoreans (Portugal) and which remains in the Brazilian tradition and folklore, especially in the city of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil. The author tried to do an exegesis of such Christmas Chants, through the following theories and notions: folklore (Cascudo), Popular Culture (Burke), performance (Schechner, Zumthor), myths (Kerényi, Campbell), archetypes (Jung), religious feasts (Bakhtin, Perez), poetry (Spina, Trevisan) and at last what such theories have in common with the voice of subalterns and the epistemologies of the South (Santos). As so far, the author tried to show in this research and posterior analysis, the richness found in Popular Culture and Folkloric Christmas Chants.