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	Cordel literature - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Cordel literature (Portuguese for "string literature") are popular and cheap printed booklets pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs, which are produced and sold in fairs and by sidestreet vendors in the northeast of Brazil.
		The cordel literature found its zenith in the decades of 20s and 30s, with the popular legend created by the cangaceiros of Lampião, a band of outlaws and bandolier bandits who terrorized the region for almost 20 years.
		The most well-known cordel author and artist is Jose Francisco Borges, whose woodcuts have been exhibited in the Louvre and the Smithsonian.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Cordel_literature (276 words)

	Electronic Cordel Literature - Brazilmax.com
		This, however, does not mean the "death of the cordel." It means that the cordel, even at the price of 1 real, is intended for people who often do not have a real to spare.
		Radio and TV have replaced it to a great extent, with the cordel only preferred by those who value "poetic information," a sort of esthetic confirmation of the facts that is one of the principal attractions of the cordel.
		Interest in the cordel is increasing among the middle class.
	www.brazilmax.com /columnist.cfm/idcolumn/74 (613 words)

	Cordel literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cordel literature (Portuguese for "string literature") are popular and cheap printed booklets pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs, which are produced and sold in fairs and by sidestreet vendors in the northeast of Brazil.
		The War of Canudos, a military conflict in the state of Bahia, 1896-1897, has been also a frequent theme of cordel literature, due to its epic dimensions and importance for the history of the Northeast backlands.
		The most well-known cordel author and artist is Jose Francisco Borges, whose woodcuts have been exhibited in the Louvre and the Smithsonian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cordel_literature (233 words)

	MARIPOSA-ARTS.NET - view by artist: José Borges
		Traditionally, the "literatura de cordel" booklets were sold at country fairs or popular rural markets where they hung from a piece of string (cordel) or clothesline.
		These long, narrative poems with their woodcut illustrations on the cover, often done by the poet himself, were sung out loud to a mostly illiterate rural population.
		More recently, cordel booklets are also sold in Brazil’s big cities where much of the rural population of the Sertão has migrated.
	www.mariposa-arts.net /artist/JoseBorges (334 words)

	ASU Research E-Magazine: A Nation Claims Its Voice
		Curran is a pioneering scholar and expert on cordel.
		He has devoted his career to studying cordel, publishing eight books on the subject, including: History of Brazil in Cordel (1998), and the more comprehensive Portrait of Brazil in the Cordel, currently on press.
		And the woodcuts that decorate the covers of most cordel booklets have become an art form in their own right.
	researchmag.asu.edu /stories/cordel2.html (1075 words)

	ASU Research E-Magazine: Collectible Cordel
		Cordel is related to the folk art of the woodcut because cordelian booklets of verse use woodcuts as decorative illustrations on their covers.
		Brazilian woodcuts in cordel came into vogue during the late 1950s when poets and publishers began commissioning local artists to create specific artwork for key cordels.
		Until that time, cordel poems usually were illustrated with whatever was on hand.
	researchmag.asu.edu /stories/cordel.html (344 words)

	Educ. Soc. vol.23 no.81; Resumen: S0101-73302002008100007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This paper discusses the specificities of the relationship that subjects deeply rooted in a predominantly oral culture establish with the written language.
		It uses the results of a completed research aimed at retracing the reading/listening public and the different forms of listening to/reading cordel literature between 1930 and 1950 in Pernambuco.
		It is argued that several factors, mainly reading aloud, intensively and collectively, and the role of memorization, favored by the reading situations and the narrative and formal structure of the very poems, made the relations between both illiterates and semi-literates and the reading of cordel enjoyable and relaxed.
	www.scielo.br /scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-73302002008100007&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en (160 words)

	Home Page
		Cordel is the short term for what we call the Literatura de Cordel or “String Literature” with roots in 17
		He welcomes interest in cordel and can be reached at his e-mail of: profmark@asu.edu (in English, Portuguese or Spanish).
		A list of links to cordel on the web can be found through any good search engine by searching for the term “literatura de cordel” or related terms.
	www.public.asu.edu /~atmjc (195 words)

	Cordel do Fogo Encantado - Biography - AOL Music
		The Cordel do Fogo Encantado was created in Arcoverde, Brazil, located 260 km from Recife (Pernambuco), by five youngsters, three from Arcoverde (Lirinha, pandeiro/vocals; Clayton Barros, guitar/vocals; Emerson Calado, percussion/voice) and two from the Morro da Conceição, Recife (Rafa Almeida, percussion/voice; and Nêgo Henrique, percussion/voice).
		In 1999, the Cordel opened at the Rec-Beat festival, organized in Recife during the Carnival.
		Get Cordel do Fogo Encantado biography information, download, listen and watch Cordel do Fogo Encantado music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and use the music search function to find information on other new and established recording artists.
	music.aol.com /artist/cordel-do-fogo-encantado/525265/biography (295 words)

	e-cordel.org - Home
		The cordel is a genre of popular Brazilian poetry, mainly found in northeastern Brazil, it is printed booklets pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs.
		Cordel is a digital storytelling platform, it allows to create connections among the people, places, and time.
		It would be used to share your digital life, and as a communication tool to share knowledge.
	www.e-cordel.org (92 words)

	Brazilian Folklore: Cordel Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Literatura de cordel" (string literature) are pamphlets or booklets that hang from a piece of string (cordel) in the places where they are sold.
		I bought this one from a lady in one of the crafts markets of Maceió, Alagoas, and she let me take a couple of pictures of her stall with several bestsellers for sale.
		In Rio, you can find cordel at the traditional feira de São Cristóvão and at the Academia Brasileira de Literatura de Cordel, at Rua Leopoldo Fróes, 37, Santa Teresa (they also sell the woodcuts).
	www.maria-brazil.org /cordel.htm (190 words)

	Florida Brazil - Definition and Historical Perspective
		Martín-Barbero (1995) includes the telenovela or soap opera genre into the realm of oral culture, which allows the stories to be permeated with the same characters and plots brought by popular forms of story telling.
		He cited the Mexican “corridos” and the Brazilian “cordel” literature as examples of this oral tradition.
		The “cordel” literature acquired its name by the cord that holds the pamphlets together.
	www.floridabrasil.com /brazilian-soup-opera/11.html (421 words)

	No Sense of Discipline - Conference - Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The historical novel Tereza Batista, written in the form of cordel literature, addresses the atrocities of sugar cane landlords, the exploitation of farm workers and violence against women of colour.
		The aim of the paper is to compare the use of cosmetic surgery in modern Brazil and in sixties Brazil and to show how literature plays a dominant role in preserving history.
		His areas of research interest are comparative studies involving English, Indian and Brazilian literature, and Brazilian regional and popular literature.
	www.emsah.uq.edu.au /conferences/interdis/abstracts/swarnakar.html (300 words)

	Vitae
		"Twentieth Century Brazilian Literature: Influence of the Poetry of the Masses (Mário de Andrade, Jorge Amado, João Guimarães Rosa and Ariano Suassuna)." UCLA Semana de Arte Moderna Symposium, Los Angeles, 1972.
		"New Cordel in Brazil: 1985." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, V. "Images of the United States in Brazil's Literatura de Cordel." Proceedings of the Pacific Coast Council of Latin American Studies.
		Spanish language, Survey of Spanish Literature, Don Quixote; Portuguese language, Os Lusíadas, Brazilian Literature, Northeastern Literature of Brazil, Jorge Amado, Grande Sertão: Veredas, Música e Poesia: Chico Buarque de Holanda, the Literatura de Cordel of Brazil; Cordel e Vida Brasileira, Luso-Brazilian Civilization, Special Topics - Brazil, Spanish American Civilization.
	www.public.asu.edu /~atmjc/vitae.html (1478 words)

	On the Lintel of Literature: Clarice Lispector's A hora da Estrela
		On the Lintel of Literature: Clarice Lispector's A hora da Estrela
		It is extremely tempting to identify with her writing, to incorporate the Claricean corpus as in the same operation of imitation/incorporation that her own literature raises, such is the perimetric peril that threatens myself who writes this.
		It exhibits itself anew as liminal writing: on the lintel of literature, under the imminence of violating its materiality and temporality (explosão) and treating them with the violence of an explosion with the very procedure that in showing and pointing, tears it.
	limen.mi2.hr /limen2-2001/masnatta.html (3400 words)

	AUTREPART, 1997-1999
		Stories of exile, Literature of cordel and the migrations in Brazil.
		At the same time, study of the migrants' culture through their written literature shows how the theme of misfortune is expressed in poetry (exile, loneliness, separation, changes in lifestyle, saudade, etc.) and is used to demonstrate the relationship between the individual and his conceptualization of space and of the world.
		The hypotheses of conjugal withdrawal and family differentiation emerging from the literature on the subject are reviewed, drawing on those dealing with the development of household and family structures in several countries and especially C?te d'Ivoire.
	www.cicred.org /rdr/rdr_uni/revue99-100/70-99-100.html (8025 words)

	Friendscript: The Newsletter for Library Friends
		“Literatura de Cordel” are long narrative poems published in chapbook form that are sold hanging from strings.
		This collection includes scholarly works on the phenomenon of “Literatura de Cordel” as well as samples of the genre.
		It will be extremely useful for the study of Chinese history, politics, society, and literature, and it will enhance the East Asian collections to support the new Ph.D. program.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /friends/Friendscript/friendscript_fall2004/article8.htm (360 words)

	Wilson Loria's homepage
		The group consisted of 28 people including actresses, actors and musicians who studied Brazilian popular culture (mainly from the northeastern region of Brazil called “nordeste brasileiro”) in order to write their own plays.
		The group’s main resources were Literatura de cordel (literature on a string) and plays by well-known playwright Ariano Suassuna.
		Loria received his B.A. in English language and literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo in 1984.
	www.marcreation.com /martist/wl/index.html (316 words)

	LAMPIAO, the Link of the Cangaco. Brazilian Hero
		Maria Bonita and Lampião had a daughter, who is still living last I heard.
		The cangaceiros still live in popular folklore, cordel literature, comics, TV and movies.
		Best of all, the band's favorite song, Mulher Rendera, which they would sing as they went into a town, is a wonderful tune almost every Brazilian knows.
	www.brazilbrazil.com /lampiao.html (938 words)

	Trexle - Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brazilian Folklore: Cordel Literature - Folk poetry of northeastern Brazil.
		Folk Poetry - Essay on Brazil's "Literatura de Cordel", oral poetry that is printed in chapbooks as well.
		Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England - Taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides and scarce publications.
	www.trexle.com /Directory/Top/Society/Folklore/Literature/Poetry (151 words)

	Beautiful Horizons: Brazil's Literatura de Cordel
		Now academic interest in the "Literatura de Cordel" (string literature in Portuguese) is probably stronger than among common Brazilians.
		The literature, which got its name from the strings on which vendors hang the booklets at popular fairs, often focuses on the 1920-1940's "Cangaco" rural banditry in the impoverished northeast, its ruthless yet revered leader Lampiao and his outlaw wife Maria Bonita.
		Jose Pacheco's "Lampiao's Arrival in Hell," in which the Devil turns away the bandit who retaliates by inflicting major damage on Hell, is one of the classics of string literature.
	www.beautifulhorizons.net /weblog/2003/09/brazils_literat.html (830 words)

	Escola Cidade Jardim Playpen
		In 2002, our guest artist was Guilherme de Faria, draftsman and lithographer that presently develops his work based on a type of Brazilian literature called cordel.
		Cordel literature is in pamphlet form, usually poetic and expressing a moral or folktale and can be sung, and printed on the cover is a lithograph representing the story within.
		Inspired by his lithographs, we developed our artwork in the school and finished with a workshop given by the artist, who honored us with his presence at the exposition, autographing his works of cordel literature.
	www.playpen.com.br /bienalartes04.asp?version=english (143 words)

	CotiaNet
		"He is the backwoosman from Bahia, whose mixed ancestry of white man and Brasilian Indian is responsible for the most popular literary expression among us - the Cordel literature - (Literature in pamphlets inspired in true stores).
		"The simplicity of the colours chosen by Teles remind us of a Waldomiro de Deus and the stories he tries to tell are artistically equivalent to the good "Cordel novels" and evoke the masterly late Tio Quincas, of the backlands of São Paulo.
		The other primitive artists who show at Praça da Replública name him "the most primitive of the Praça".
	www.cotianet.com.br /Cultura/Teles_B_.htm (264 words)

	Imagens de Leitura na Literatura de Cordel (Images of Reading in "Cordel" Literature). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Imagens de Leitura na Literatura de Cordel (Images of Reading in "Cordel" Literature).
		Shows, in "Cordel" literature (a popular manifestation found in northeastern Brazil) an expressive source for the analysis of popular culture in Brazil.
		Uses this literature to discuss images of reading.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b800100fb.html (73 words)

	Recent Acquisitions and Publications Exhibition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Library's "Literature de Cordel" collection of Brazilian chapbooks from the northeastern section of that country is believed to be the largest in the world, with approximately 5,000 unique titles.
		"Literature de cordel" translates to "literature of the clothesline" and refers to the method of displaying the booklets by pinning them to clotheslines in the markets where they are sold.
		Many scholars use this type of publication to study the history and folklore of an area.
	permanent.access.gpo.gov /lps3373/index-11.htm (1004 words)

	Brazilian Folklore: Cordel Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Literatura de cordel" (string literature) are pamphlets or booklets that hang from a piece of string (cordel) in the places where they are sold.
		I bought this one from a lady in one of the crafts markets of Maceió, Alagoas, and she let me take a couple of pictures of her stall with several bestsellers for sale.
		In Rio, you can find cordel at the traditional feira de São Cristóvão and at the Academia Brasileira de Literatura de Cordel, at Rua Leopoldo Fróes, 37, Santa Teresa (they also sell the woodcuts).
	www.www.maria-brazil.org /cordel.htm (190 words)

	Area Studies/Overseas Field Offices (Witness and Response: September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress)
		Foreign area specialists from the Library's Area Studies divisions, with extensive knowledge of the world's languages and cultures, immediately began collecting and interpreting press reactions and forewarnings from around the world.
		The Library's Federal Research Division had issued a prophetic report, Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism, in 1999, based on then-current literature written by experts on terrorism.
		The report mentioned the possibility of a terrorist attack on important U.S. monuments and buildings.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/911/911-area.html (477 words)

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