ORÍKÌ: MEMÓRIA E IDENTIDADE NA LITERATURA-TERREIRO YORUBAIANA

Abstract

Oríkì is a Yoruba literary genre widely disseminated in the regions of Yorubaland, bequeathed to the black diaspora by the experience of forced transatlantic transit that acclimatized it here in Brazil in the form of what Freitas (2016) calls terreiro-literature – a phenomenon and concept that operates all over the world. the literary, philosophical, aesthetic, ethical, historical framework present in Afro-Bahian religious communities. Despite its literary relevance and prevalence in the Nàgó-Yorùbá candomblé communities, there are very few studies, especially in the area of Literature, that explore its occurrence and its ethical and aesthetic dimensions that claim the body and other factors relevant to the understanding of this experience unique literary work outside eurocentric standards. This genre, transmitter of information, concepts and values that permeate its forms, techniques, performances, contributes to the preservation of collective memory and identity cohesion, based on literary principles not yet recognized by hegemonic theory and criticism. For this reason, a survey and analysis of some texts of this genre present in some Candomblé terreiros in Salvador was carried out, based on categories and codes seized from the elements that compose it, based on the concept of oraliture by Félix Ayoh'Omidire (2020) that deals with mnemonic mechanisms embedded in the conception of Yoruba literary genres, their logic and methodological rigors of conception, preservation and transmission in Africa and the Atlantic Diaspora.