Entre o fanatismo e a utopia: trajetória de antônio conselheiro e do beato zé lourenço na literatura de cordel

Abstract

The following paper aims to recover the political dimension of the brazilian literature on string, also called literatura de cordel, trough the analysis of the poems published about two characters and their communities: Antonio Conselheiro and the beato José Lourenço. We privileged a theoretic approach that allowed us to capture the meaning of the appropriations made by the poets from different historical periods about the memory of both characters. So, we looked forward to build an analysis about the political ideas and concepts used in the poems, understanding the poem of cordel as a way of political action triggered by the performance.