Entre abcs, glórias, pelejas, encontros e desafios: os significados socioculturais da capoeira pela literatura de cordel em Salvador (BA)

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is comprehending the historical and sociocultural meanings through the cordel literature found in Salvador (BA). Therefore, we mapped fifty-one Memory Places and visited forty-three. On them, we found thirty-three cordéis with the capoeira thematic, our study objective. By the Content Analysis, of Bardin, we categorize the works in five themes and made an analysis of its meanings by the cultural studies. As an epistemological basis, embodied this thesis by the studies of Capoeira, with Abib (2005, 2009, 2019), Oliveira (2019), Pires (2002, 2010), Rego (1968), Reis (2010) etc. The Cordel Literature, with Cascudo (1979), Curran (1973, 2011), Nogueira (2004), Nascimento Neto (2014), Maxado (2013) etc. The Memory and Memory Places, with Nora (1993), Da Silva (2019, 2021), Le Goff (2013), Halbwachs (2006), Jelin (2002), among others. After the analysis of the Cordéis, fundamental conceptual categories emerged for the discussion, by the example of dissimulation, tradition, the dichotomy between types of capoeira, etc. Between the results, we evidenced capoeiras clashes, by the example of Besouro de Mangangá, of Manduca da Praia and of Nascimento Grande against repressive forces of yesteryear. We realized, also, the founding role of the Mestre Bimba and the Mestre Pastinha as social actors against the discriminatory process of capoeira as Afro-Brazilian and diasporic culture that reveal themes so latent in our lives, also as the racism, the prejudice, the religious intolerance, among others. In addition, we realized that the cordel is a symbolic place of memory with contributes for the past marks do not disappear and coexist with the perspectives of the present.