El cordel de Leandro Gomes de Barros: un migrante en la capital de Pernambuco, un poeta entre dos mundos

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the work of the poet Leandro Gomes de Barros, who published his cordéis in pamphlets from the city of Recife, at the beginning of the 20th century. Marginalized and thought of as less important, among the literary canons, his work can be observed in another way, so that the investigation proposes to understand the richness of his work, placing him as a "poet in transit", transiting between the ancient and the modern, between the countryside and the capital, between the oral and the written, between the rich and the poor, between the literate and the illiterate. To this end, we sought to situate him socially, understand the connections between life and work, as well as approach the public with whom he dialogued, thus understanding the richness of his literary production, a window to glimpse different segments of Pernambuco and Brazilian society at the beginning of the century.