MEMÓRIA CULTURAL NA POESIA DE LUÍS CARLOS GUIMARÃES
Memory. Cultural Memory. Potiguar’s Memory. Serido’s Memory. Luís Carlos Guimarães.
This research analyzes the seridoensecultural memory in excerpts of the poetry work of the currais-novense’s writer Luís Carlos Guimarães. Two are the books of poetry studied: O aprendiz e a canção (1961) and As cores do dia (1965). From the first work was chosen “Galo”, the second “O Curral” and “O pai”. In the foreground there is a poetic tendency to represent/remember symbols that mark the architectural identity of the mesoregion, to note: the farm house, the corrals, among others; on the other hand, there is also a lyrical self that seeks to register, in its particular way, various cultural practices that, like the architectural landmarks, permeate the culture and the Seridó’s imaginary. Agriculture and livestock are listed as cultural practices that have had greater influence and recurrence. In the midst of the representation of architectural symbols and cultural practices also appear fundamental elements to the cultural integrity of the scenarios and, therefore, especially interconnected to both poles discussed above. They are animals - with emphasis on cattle and roosters - and agricultural crops such as corn and cotton. The result of this complex turn-based game is a singular and particular representation of a sertanejo’s environment. Cultural memories are organized in a hermetic and sometimes indistinct flow of images, making clairvoyant choice through a process of poetic construction that evokes landscapes and cultural practices prioritizing the defense of artistic expression without many barriers of reason. All the poems recover, by means of institutionalized memories, true icons of high identity content, made possible both an analysis of poetic representation and the study of the singular perspective of the poet who reinterprets them. For the proposed discussion, the research is based on the studies of: Nora (1993), Bosi (2007), Le Goff (2013), Halbwachs (2006), Ricœur (2007) to base discussions on memory; Assmann (1995; 1998; 2008;), A. Assmann (2011), Erll and Nunning (2003; 2008) regarding the theoretical perspective of cultural memory adopted; the postulates of Cascudo (1956, 1984, 1999, 2012), J. Lamartine (2006), O. Lamartine (1965, 1980, 2012, 2016); P. Lamartine (2004); Cirne (1979; 2013), Medeiros (1980) Medeiros Filho (1983), Mariz e Suassuna (2005), Trindade (2010), Macêdo (2012; 2015), Macêdo et al. (2018), Diniz (2008)with regard to the seridoense’s and potiguar’s culture/history.