Maracá, gibão e viola: poetas indígenas Xukuru criando o Sertão da Poesia (Teixeira/PB e São José do Egito/PE)

Abstract

Approaching the period that follows from the time of the invasion by europeans and descendants of the colonizers to the present day, this dissertation consists of the result of research on the Xukuru indigenous presence in the municipalities of Teixeira/PB and São José do Egito/PE with the purpose of understanding their contribution to the configuration of what call Sertão da Poesia understood as a way of life created by poetic discourse. Part of historiographical review, transcription and reading of documents from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, archaeological and sesmarias sources and baptism, marriage and death records. I believe that, in the context of the interactions with the invaders, the Xukuru who survived the “War of the Barbarians” and remained or returned to this region handled poetry, theirs and that of the invaders, as a strategy of resistance and social prominence, including descendants who became precursors of the School of Poetry of Teixeira and the School of Poetry of São José do Egito.