Caipira narratives

Author(s)

Daniel Batista Lima Borges

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
• Defense date: 2014-09-05

Examining board members

Suzi Frankl Sperber; Anita Martins Rodrigues de Moraes; Alcebiades Diniz Miguel

• Advisor: Suzi Frankl Sperber

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to outline the links between oral narratives and contemporary cultural peculiarity among country (caipira) communities. In order to do so we turn to the narratives of the inhabitants of the Caçapava municipality in the Paraíba valley area, São Paulo state. This work is based on the hypothesis that the narrators interviewed develop two ways of recounting oral traditions: the first is through a set of simple formulae, called the causo, the caso and the caipira saga, all characterized by a series of forms which have been fixed and condensed by tradition. The second, the oral story, is a freer style from the point of view of the creator, where meaning is actualized through narration. The narrative instances responsible for these stories are formed according to Walter Benjamin¿s ideas about the narration of experience as a re-signification of lived experience. This helps us to identify traces in the narratives of the collaborators in this research that counter apocalyptic diagnoses about present-day caipira culture. Against these perspectives, the work presented suggests that country or caipira culture continues to renovate and actualize itself, within its own links and interacting with changes from the outside, such as the industrialization of the Paraíba valley (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/02164-8 - Tales and daily: trails that REMAKE
• Grantee: Daniel Batista Lima Borges
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master