BEYOND THE TROPICS: BETRAYAL AND VIOLENCE ON POPULAR ROMANCEIRO / <i> ALÉM DOS TRÓPICOS: TRAIÇÃO E VIOLÊNCIA NO ROMANCEIRO POPULAR

Abstract

The female body has not always been autonomous as it is nowadays in modern societies. In distant times, it had faced an incisive and cruel process of subordination and erasure, based in Manichaeism discourse, responsible for characterizing it, historically, as a receptacle of evil. During the profusion of religious of the Middle Age, surrounded by stigmas and patriarchal ideologies, the woman succumbed to the desire and man's point of view. By the hands of her lover, spouse, and even the progenitor, her body suffered a physical and moral disintegration. The gothic world, with its paradigms coming from Christianity, subtracted from the feminine the sexual pleasure, choices, and at times undercut her freedom. This image has seeped into the popular text so that the vicissitudes of time and space proved powerless and therefore were not able to delete it. The traditional romanceiro thus constitutes a temple, classical and at the same time medieval, where the woman relives and reveals the faces of the past. When adulterers, liars, sinners are punished violently by his master (or masters). Our porpuse of analysis is set around this cultural configuration. Based on epistemological constructs of Semiotics of Cultures, we intended to study the popular play Brancalinda, in order to extract and examine the ​​axiological values, from which one can explain the vivid confrontation between man and woman.