Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:25:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RobsonWP_DISSERT.pdf: 4811287 bytes, checksum: 1aacb0b10b73c47011738cbe250a0c16 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-12 / Backland? are not only geographic spaces limited by physically established borders. It is a space composed by events, experiences, behavior, symbology, manners related to how to live and see the world. It is developed from historical processes and layers of discourses that contact each other, compete among themselves, establish agreement, promote consensus which define, resignify and update them over time. The present paper seeks to analyze and discuss the forms in which discourses produced by cordel literature? sold and consumed in popular locations, from backlands to coast cities, during the first four decades of 20th century, represented the environment, habits, moral codes, cultural traits, social types, rites and beliefs, related to northeastern backlands. The paper also aims to investigate the forms on how discourses produced by representations contributed to the constitution of backlands as a space culturally constructed. Poems from the poet and editor Jo?o Martins de Athayde will be used to establish dialogues between discourses produced by cordel and others discursive modalities, such as, newspapers, prose literature, painting, texts of memoirists and historiography, about backlands, analyzing how those representations circulated, were consumed and absorbed by backlands and other spaces inhabitants, contacted and agreed with other types of discourse, supporting the establishment of backlands as a space and countryside people as a social type / O sert?o n?o ? apenas espa?o geogr?fico circunscrito por fronteiras fisicamente estabelecidas. Ele ? espa?o constitu?do por acontecimentos, experi?ncias, costumes, simbologias, modos de viver e ver o mundo. ? espa?o desenvolvido a partir de processos hist?ricos e camadas de discursos que travam contatos umas com as outras, concorrem entre si, estabelecem acordos, promovem consensos que o definem, ressignificam e atualizam ao longo do tempo. Esse trabalho tem como objetivo analisar e discutir as formas como os discursos produzidos pela Literatura de Cordel vendida e consumida nos locais de circula??o popular, nas cidades do sert?o e do litoral, durante as quatro primeiras d?cadas do S?culo XX, representaram o ambiente, os costumes, c?digos morais, tra?os culturais, tipos sociais, ritos e cren?as, associadas ao sert?o nordestino, bem como ser?o investigadas as formas como os discursos produzidos por essas representa??es contribu?ram com a constitui??o do sert?o enquanto espa?o culturalmente constru?do. Ser?o utilizados poemas do poeta e editor Jo?o Martins de Athayde a fim de estabelecer di?logos entre os discursos produzidos pelo cordel e outras modalidades discursivas, tais como, jornais, literatura em prosa, pintura, textos de memorialistas e historiografia, acerca do sert?o, analisando-se, assim, as formas com as quais essas representa??es circularam, foram consumidas e apreendidas por habitantes do sert?o e de outros espa?os, travaram contatos e acordos com outros tipos de discurso, ajudando a estabelecer o sert?o como espa?o e o sertanejo enquanto tipo social