Narradores do sertão: história e cultura nas histórias de assombração de sertanejos cearenses

Abstract

The present report examines narratives by sertanejos from North Ceará, semiarid, about their experiences in "caatinga" forest. The search was realized with oral history and video by interviews with men and women, rural workers, hunters, house wives, habitants from sertão. The analysis tried to dialogue with folklorists, who chronicled and made public many histories and customs by sertanejos, in order to confront different social memory production.

Beginning interviews by sertanejos, on oral history and video, the purpose is to comprehend the sertanejo construction as subject narrator of histories, to deal with your subjectivities, to incorporate their point of view, and try to understand the sense composed by then about transformations lived on caatinga forests in north sertão on Ceará. Regar'ding to Alessandro Portelli and Luisa Passerini, I tried do catch the sertanejo~s peculiarities by their narratives, considered as way of culture. More than description of quotidian, the effort observed to comprehend a grammar of imagination on narratives, searching signs of relations with sertão and with present and past times.

Than, I searched histories ~f apparitions, but I was taken by surprise with the myth's reverse: this is the end of apparitions? This is the end of wild beasts? This is the end of caatinga forests? To procure connections with apparitions and landscape on memory is to construct a way to discover new configurations in these universes.

So, I search to consider carefully the politics and academics dimension with oral history, to consider its limits and the possibilities of articulation with others practices on history writing.