Literatura oral e performance: a identidade e a ancestralidade no Ticumbi de Conceição da Barra, ES

• Autor(a) principal: Schiffler, Michele Freire
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/3170
• topic: Oral literature; Identity; Literatura oral; Ticumbi; Identidad; Letras; Literatura folclórica - Conceição da Barra (ES); Identidade; Performance (Arte); 82

This research examines the importance of oral literature in quilombola communities identity building from the North area of Espirito Santo State, known as “Sapê do Norte”. It is observed their singing, their plot, melody, tune, verbal and body performance which were recorded and transcribed from the regional festival “Baile de Congos de São Benedito”. The corpus shows a series of social tensions surrounding the region of “Sapê do Norte” communities, which shows a strong relation between cultural heritage, ancestry, and territorial issues, as well as constant processes of dispossession and hybridism in the religious, social, and linguistic fields. In performance, past time is present in the memories of African traditions, which are lived and updated in speech moments, enabling an hybrid symbolic writing that translates its plural identity narrative for the historical subjects from Ticumbi. It is in this tension space that tradition and ancestrality are sung in verses from the “Bailes de Congo” and became part of the local culture, engendered by traditions and fights. It is a place where wealth, wisdom, and symbolic universe of communities comprise an intangible cultural heritage to be preserved, wide spread and socially legitimated.