IFNOPAP: a spring of stories

Abstract

A thematic dossier with the Imaginary in Popular Oral Narrative Forms of the Paraense Amazon is a very big responsibility. IFNOPAP is an important project for the studies of Oral Poetics. With almost 30 years of existence, an infinity of Theses, Dissertations, TCC's and scientific articles, it is perhaps more than a project, an adjective, kind, like Professor Socorro Simões; captain of the boat that floats between rivers, forests, spaces and cyberspaces calls us. We are all Ifnopapians from many sides.

And, in this IFNOPAP trip, we started with some memories of Alexandre Ranieri who entered the project almost by chance and never left. The text IFNOPAP in Memoirs: Beginning and Middle is filled with emotion and affection, in addition to demonstrating the way in which the project permeates the academic path of the guest.
The first article of this dossier signed by Andressa Ramos, Rafaella Costa and Rubenil Oliveira in partnership with professor Socorro Simões Corpo-velho: reflections on female aging in oral narratives from Matintaperera brings to light a relevant issue today: the pattern of beauty associated with the female body, always judged and pressured, while, in times of a pandemic, old bodies suffered more than others from the neglect of public policies and the indifference of young people. Therefore, to publish this article that debunks the stereotypes around the aged female body from Matintaperera's Amazonian oral narratives is to (re)humanize these subalternized bodies that resume their condition of subject now discriminated against in this increasingly liquid, egocentric and narcissistic modernity.
The next article in the dossier signed by Professor Sylvia Maria Trusen from the Federal University of Pará, O Marvelous Amazonian, a poetics of alterity, makes use of the project narratives published in “Abaetuba conta...” highlighting the category of alterity, often forgotten. and swallowed up by the arrogance of the ego, to read the narratives of the Amazonian Imaginary.
But it's not just IFNOPAP that is made of stories. We also receive, in this edition, articles from other places, other north, gifts of diversity. And this journey begins with the northeastern cordel leaflets and their versions of a masterpiece of world literature: Intertextos de Romeo e Julieta in the northeastern leaflets by Weber Firmino Alves and Naelza de Araújo Wanderley deals with the relationship between these texts from the popular imagination and the immortalized history by William Shakespeare.
Returning to the north, the article by Emanuel Fontel, Regina Cruz, Benedita Borges, Thaynara Paixão entitled The mythical statute and the argumentative dimension in burial narratives produced in quilombola communities delves into the quilombola communities of the State of Pará to unveil the mythical status of burial narratives .
Leaving once again from the north and returning to the northeast, more specifically to Paraíba, the authors Alberto Ricardo Pessoa and Cirstiano Clemente de Souza analyze a relationship that, for some people, does not seem clear, but which becomes more and more as we read the article. Orality and comics: pedagogical possibilities. With that in mind, the authors explore these possibilities that comics provide to the study of orality.
Descending from the northeast to the southeast, from Paraíba to Minas Gerais, Fábio Martins, Leonel Brizolla Monastirsky transport us to the religious landscape created by the popular Catholicism of the campaign of kings and the Menino Jesus de Carmo do Rio Claro in the article Religious landscape: popular Catholicism and the companies of kings and the Menino Jesus de Carmo do Rio Claro-MG. And on this journey that we undertake, reading the text makes us “see” the sound and taste landscapes that help to compose the religious one.
Going down a little further, to the south, in the north of Paraná, in Londrina, Kaedmon Selberg Soares in Poesia in concert: the word back to the street deals with the group Poesia in concert and its reincorporation in the Literary Festival of Londrina (Londrix), emphasizing the social importance of the event for the city and remembering other times of Bar Valentino.
Leaving the north of Paraná, our trip ends in Antônio Cardoso in Bahia where Renailda Ferreira Cazumbá and Eliziane Santos e Santos talk about the stories and lives of the mestres of the Grupo Raízes do Samba and their sambadores and sambadeiras in the article Vozes poéticas e (re) quilombola stocks of the Raízes de Toco Group in Antônio Cardoso – BA.
We hope that traveling through all these places and people and beings and stories will be fruitful and delight readers in the same way that it enchanted us as a magazine.