A saudade cantada na poesia popular do sertão do Pajeú

Abstract

The main objective of this study is reflect on “saudade” And how it shows itself on the Northeast popular literature, with a deep analysis on the poetry produced on Pajeú’s Sertão. We also made a research about the latin word that originated the term "saudade" in the portuguese language to constrast words already existing in the brazilian indigenous languages with the same meaning. By doing so, we made a collection of historical processes about the word and the feeling, producing literary analyses about the poetical “singing” about "saudade" in the popular culture. For theoretical foundations we appealled on many authors like Guerreiro (1987), Hall (2003), Silva (2013), Cascudo (1984) and others also important for the research. The work is divided into three sections with some subtopics. First we discussed the perspective of what is popular and popular literature as well as the existing thematic plurality. Then we sought to understand a little bit more about "saudade", how it is represented in each situation, language, culture, etc. We finish by showing the songs of Pajeú and the "saudade cantada" by the region's poets. Throughout the research, it was possible to observe that "saudade" has no ties and no definition and is inherent to the human being.