FROM MIGRANTS TO TERRITORIES IN RIO DE JANEIRO

CORDEL LITERATURE COLLECTIONS AND ITS VIRTUAL CONSERVATION PROCESS

Abstract

The proposal to study the Academia Brasileira de Literatura de Cordel- ABLC was born along with the demand to make its collection virtual. This question arose from the need to promote policies and actions that could embrace popular culture, outlining possibilities and challenges that corroborate with preservationist measures of the cordel, especially from its registration, which occurred on September 19, 2018, recognizing it as Brazilian Cultural Heritage. Based on the project to digitize the ABLC collection, contemplating not only the material scope but the idea of the necessary attention to the “spirit of the place”, or to the added values in terms of identity, symbolism, perception and imagery, the need to maintain the physical and intangible memory of this knowledge, trying with this to take effective actions against the physical deterioration of the paper collection. As a methodology, we opted for bibliographical research of an exploratory nature and for the description of the experience, with a view to a qualitative analysis. The idea touches on the relationships established in the cultural territory of the ABLC from the migratory processes, condensing beyond these aspects that resonate the territorial formations in the city of Rio de Janeiro, a guiding thread of references to the construction of spaces aimed at the Northeastern culture. Thus, this article seeks to bring the experience of the digitalization project of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, as a need to keep this memory alive, given its representativeness of the popular, the rural, the dialogue and the information shared by the old cord, which ended up being now a memorial image that links the past to the present and the possibility of the cord having a future in history of the country's literature, not only for its record, but for its continuity in time and space.