A perspectiva política da poesia de patativa do Assaré: análise do cordel Antônio Conselheiro.

Abstract

This article analyzes a string by the poet Patativa do Assaré (1909-2002), observing the social and political perspective taken by the author in the text Antonio Conselheiro (2006). Through subsidies from literature and discursive semiotics, it talks about a poetry of a social nature, which takes up events from the early years of republican Brazil and which resulted in the massacre of thousands of peasants, as the production of the novel “Os sertões” had already witnessed at first hand. by Euclides da Cunha. It is a text of laudatory character when the figure of the blessed is exalted by being approximated to the values of Christianity. Counselor would organize a society in the Brazilian interior with socialist characteristics and, due to the figurativization brought by Patativa, this would configure itself as a true society with utopian features. The work discusses the biography of the great master of cordel, the characteristics of this poetic genre, the history of the Canudos massacre and, finally, it presents a semiotic analysis of the poem based on the categories of discursive syntax and semantics.