A literatura de cordel na Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa: organizando uma memória dispersa

Abstract

The Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa (FCRB) expresses in its mission its commitment to the preservation and dissemination of brazilian cultural memory. Traditionally, this institution keeps the collections considered valuable for society, either by the documents themselves or by the importance of who gathered them. The bibliographic collection, stored in the Serviço de Biblioteca of the FCRB, is constituted by several types of documents, among them the cordel leaflets, that will be treated in this work. These constitute a rich source of information, with accessible and popular language, which allows its access both by the public and by academics, from its development in Brazil to the present day. As an objective, this work seeks to study the aforementioned collection, which corresponds to the most consulted digital material in the Library Service, aiming to recover its trajectory, organization and dissemination. In order to reach it, bibliographical researches were carried out with authors in the cordel area, as well as using the works published by the FCRB itself. There were also interviews with cordel and institution scholars, as well as some consultations with the FCRB institutional archive. With the conclusion of this work, it is intended to present to the community an evocation of the memory of cordel literature in the FCRB, which has no defined organization. Finally, the list of presentations made based on this search is displayed. As a result of the dissertation, are founded the time line related to what happened with this theme in the institution, as well as two tables summarizing the publications and events held by the FCRB.