Memória e narrativa na voz de contadoras itinerantes e griots

Abstract

Previously storytelling occurred amid sitting groups around a campfire and, among them, a storyteller heating the people present there with their living breath, telling the stories passed from generation to generation. They were called shamans, griots. In the twenty-first century, this practice has become and the places where they operate are differentiated as schools, hospitals, public squares, universities, among others. They are called urban contemporary or narrators, for assuming a new identity and professionalize this practice. Thus, this research proposes to study the early formation of movement of these storytellers, in the voice of women formed in two public institutions of higher education: in the Pará State University (UEPA) and the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), from 2000 to 2005, at which were part of the Griot groups (UEPA) and Itinerant meters (UFPA). The women involved in these groups, which I was part of the Griot, sought in his body and voice, propagate studied and heard stories both in verse and in prose, in the extension project already mentioned. Thus, this work is to thread the memory guided the assumptions of Maurice Halbawchs (2006), Michael Pollak (1992), Pierre Nora (1993), interspersed with study of Oral Poetry of Paul Zumthor (2010) to report narrative "embedded" concept presented by Karl Eric Schollhammer (2012), and thus be able to tell how it all began.