Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic established a transmutation, which, although initially temporary in appearance, produced dramatic changes in the secular way of teaching and learning in methodologies and resources. It also caused profound social, emotional, and educational impacts on the academic community in general. From this perspective, in this chapter, the authors aim to identify the impacts caused by the pandemic on daily life and revealed by students in their storytelling in verse, more specifically, in cordel. For this, they used as methodology the assumptions of content analysis, in the expectation of having an in-depth understanding of the content presented by the students and making inferences, in order to achieve the intended purpose. As a result, they found in the verses impacts associated with three categories of daily life, which they created from the data processing—sanitary, personal, and social—and they found that cordel literature, by the very essence of capturing the images of life as it is, proved to be an adequate way to capture the students' voices about the topic in question.
TopTheoretical Framework
In this section, we present the theoretical framework that supported our study, which is composed of the following items: some aspects of the pandemic and its impacts on Remote Learning; Cordel Literature; and Content Analysis, which is based on the assumptions of Bardin's Theory (1977). 1,2
Key Terms in this Chapter
Galope à Beira-Mar: Kind of cordel that has as its main characteristic a structure in which the stanzas are composed of ten lines containing eleven poetic syllables, having the stress falling on the second, fifth, eighth and eleventh poetic syllables; plus, the last stanza finishes with the word “mar.”
Cordelista: A person who writes cordéis.
Repentista: Term associated with the expression de repente, which means “unforeseen,” “unexpected,” and “sudden.” It referes to singers who make verses and songs in the form of improvisation, performing alone or challenging another singer.
Cordel: Literary genre of Portuguese origin, which was established in the Northeast Region of Brazil and assumed its own characteristics associated with the Northeastern context. It is characterized by an informal and popular language. Initially, it was exposed in leaflets hanging on ropes or similar objects, whose specificity gave rise to the term Cordel Literature.
Abestada: A silly person, a goof.
Oxe: Abbreviation of Oxente, which conveys the idea of astonishment, surprise, admiration, or fright.
Martelo Agalopado: Kind of cordel that has as its main characteristic a structure in which the stanzas are composed of ten lines containing ten poetic syllables, having the stress falling on the third, sixth and tenth poetic syllables.
Vixe: Although its meaning varies according to the context in which it is being used, it generally denotes surprise or fright, which can sometimes be replaced by the expression Virgem Maria (Virgin Mary).