Um novo ciclo folclórico para o Conselheiro? A "continuação" do processo de folclorização de Antônio Conselheiro (1940-1960)

Abstract

This dissertation is intended as an analysis and continuation of the folklorization process of Antônio Conselheiro, an explanatory category present in the work O Ciclo Folclórica do Bom Jesus Conselheiro (1950) written by researcher José Calasans. Using the idea of a Folklore Cycle, related to the chief of Arraial de Canudos, I will analyze how this process followed, through the problematization and discursive analysis of the new folkloric pieces, understood here as speeches and productions about the Counselor that were produced subsequent to the aforementioned initial study. Articulating transversal themes such as messianism, Sebastianism, folklore, and based on theoretical-methodological contributions from Sociology and Historical Materialism, the works Messianismo no Brasil e no Mundo (1965), by sociologist Maria Pereira Isaura de Queiroz, will be used as sources, and Cangaceiros e Fanático (1963), by the Marxist Rui Facó, produced during the 40s and 60s, identified here as the new folkloric pieces, for the new phases of the Cycle, emphasizing the highlighted temporality. In this way, this research is a study of the countless faces and folkloric images attributed to Antônio Conselheiro, as well as an analysis of the impact of these representations on the formation of the imagery-cultural profile of one of the identities that were attributed to the northeastern backcountry people.