It forms one of the least altered continuations of the western traditions of popular literature. English translation of cordel collins portugueseenglish. They are so named because they are hung from strings to display them to potential customers. About this collection brazil cordel literature web archive.
It is written by humble, backlands poets or urban poets, most with very limited formal schooling, but with the gift of verse. Cordel pamphlets serve the community by alerting them to health concerns such as dengue fever. They provide entertainment in the re telling of folk. They are produced and sold in street markets and by street vendors in brazil, mainly in the northeast. Cordel literature are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk. The pamphlets, called folhetos, are hung on clotheslines strung across the poets stalls. Mais recentes, podemos citar os poetas jose alves sobrinho, homero do rego barros, patativa do assare antonio goncalves da silva, teo azevedo. About this collection brazil cordel literature web. Ucla library special collections room a17, charles e. They are a grassroots form of communication whose purpose is both education and entertainment. Over 100,000 english translations of portuguese words and phrases.
Transformouse na expressao artistica literaria da cultura popular, principalmente, na regiao nordeste do brasil. Recifepe o patriarca do cordel literatura popular em versos poesia popular formatacao folha a4, sulfite ou jornal dividida em cruz capa 1 ilustracao. The poets recite their poems to passing shoppers, who. English translation of cordel the official collins portugueseenglish dictionary online. For almost a century they have been the principal literature of the loser classes in the brazilian northeast, read or sung aloud in marketplaces and printed and illustrated by. Neste programa mostramos os varios aspectos do cordel. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page.