Banca de DEFESA: EMANUEL DA SILVA OLIVEIRA

TRANCOSO STORIES AS REPRESENTATION OF PEASANT RESISTANCE: GENRE, STORIES AND ORAL TRADITION.

Memory

History of Trancoso 

Oral history 

Tradition

This research has as its object of analysis the phenomenon “stories of Trancoso”, an emic concept present, mainly, in the northeastern interior, which refers to a cultural manifestation of orality. In it, the “oral tales” conceptualized as “stories of Trancoso” are created, narrated (told), being reproduced and altered in a transmission from generation to generation, through peasant men and women “storytellers” and their respective interlocutors, who learn through repetition to also be craft narrators, if social circumstances allow it. The stories of Trancoso, in addition to being comic, contain a “subversive” character, of dissatisfaction with the place of exploitation occupied by poor workers. This issue was observed during the development of my master's thesis, which corroborates Maynard Araújo's statement that, in the interior of Brazil, the stories that are heard the most are those of Trancoso (or Troncoso), a character always willing to place the rich in bad shape and to avenge the injustice that the poor and members of the destitute class suffer because of oppression.