Name: ZILDA HOFFMANN
Publication date: 30/01/2023
Advisor:
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| JOÃO CLAUDIO ARENDT | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| JOÃO CLAUDIO ARENDT | Advisor * |
| LUÍS EUSTÁQUIO SOARES | Internal Examiner * |
| MARIA MIRTIS CASER | Internal Examiner * |
| VITOR CEI SANTOS | Internal Alternate * |
Summary: Critical-interpretive analysis of the narratives of the series História dos quilombolas, by the author Sebastião Maciel de Aguiar, who gave scriptural existence to the stories told by the old descendants of enslaved people from the Vale do Cricaré, located in the extreme north of the State of Espírito Santo. The series consists of forty volumes titled with the names of real black characters who star in each narrative. Among which, those who bear the marks of oral tradition inherited from enslaved African ancestors were selected. The first twelve volumes were analyzed in chapter 3, dealing with tales told by old storytellers about blacks who were enslaved, resisted oppression and fought for freedom; volumes 13 to 16 deal with storytellers; volume 17 tells the story of a famous guitar player, Chico D´Anta da Viola, a devotee of São Benedito. Volumes 21, 22, 23 and 26 deal with the components of the Baile de Congos that, together with the old storytellers and Chico D`Anta da Viola, organized the religious festivals in the Cricaré Valley, the setting for the narratives. Volumes 13 to 26 were analyzed in chapter 4. The other narratives were not included in this research because they deviate from the research proposal, as they deal with biographies of more current characters. They remain as a proposal for a new study on how the descendants of enslaved people lived and thought at the end of the 20th century. The methodology is bibliographical on the oral tradition inherited from African culture from the reflections of Hampaté Bâ
(2010) and Jan Vansina (2010); and on historiography, which is the temporal thread of the narratives, we chose the work of Boris Fausto (1995) for a more general context, and for the more specific part about local history, the doctoral theses of Maria do Carmo de Oliveira Russo (2011) on slavery in São Mateus/ES in the years 1848 to 1888; by Simone Raquel Batista Ferreira (2009) on the quilombola communities of Sapê do Norte; by Vilma Almada (1984) on slavery in the second half of the 19th century in the State of Espírito Santo.
Keywords: History of the Quilombolas; Sebastião Maciel de Aguiar; Oral tradition; Historiography.
