Literatura Popular Nordestina: O Folheto

A new "performance"... Folheto by Guto Bitu

A young student of the Academia dos Cordelista do Crato demonstrates his poetic abilities in his video in which he recites his folheto...

Animated and Recited Folhetos on YouTube

This first folheto is the story of the Casamento do Curio and is recited, but not animated:

This second video is -aside from quite humorous- a great example of an animated folheto:

A Arvore do Dinhero - animated folheto

Watch this beautifuly animated folheto on YouTube: 

Jose Francisco Borges

A poet with many folhetos published under his authorship, Jose Francisco Borges is also the most well-known creator of cover art woodblock prints, or, "xilogravura."

Many of his images can be found on a wonderful website called Con/Vida, located here.  See some of his beautiful images below...

Patativa de Assare

Patativa de Assare is a celebrated artist of folheto's poetic tradition. View him reciting his poetry on the YouTube video below...

Bemvindo!

 

This blog is dedicated to facilitating and interactive critique modality for the Brazilian chapbook tradition that I refer to primarily as the "folheto" (a little book) or "literatura popular nordestina" (Northeastern Popular Literature). Here I will post images found through research, YouTube videos that are revolutionizing this art and my own comments, meant to encourage your participation! As a popular form of oral and written poetic verse, the folheto tradition is experiencing renewed relevance due to its adaptation to the age of technology: now rather than being recited aloud for crowds, it is recorded and disseminated throughout the world by YouTube. Please feel free to include comments and suggestions to this blog. I will answer as best I can, and try to always make references to further reading/listening. Enjoy!