Representações do feminino na literatura de tradição oral da RCI: o que se diz sobre a mulher

Abstract

The following study recognizes the traditional singing and the popular songs as pertinent elements of the culture of the Italian immigration to the Northeast of Rio Grande do Sul and attempts at revealing them under the clear-cut of the cultural distinction between sexes. What female representations may be read in the materialization of this multi-faceted cultural element - specifically in the lyrics of such songs and in the relation they keep with its contexts of occurrence - is the question which combines the culture and gender categories from which such analysis is established. Embedded in the context of the proposed studies by the Program of Masters in Languages and Regional Culture of the University of Caxias do Sul, this research seeks to cut its object out of the set of expressions of the oral literature of the Região Colonial Italiana - RCI in the Northeast of Rio Grande do Sul. By looking at it from a perspective of interpretative anthropology, the paper tries to contribute with a group of researchers dedicated to the understanding of the region. The selected songs are analyzed inside the field of studies of representation and as lieu de mémoire (site of memory). Hence as support to the senses which counterbalance and empower the cultures.