A representação da mulher no Festival de Parintins

Abstract

This article aims to make a study about the representation in trrajectory of women in the Parintins Folk Festival, aiming to provide a better understanding of the exhibition process of women in two distinct moments, namely: in the first moment, the transformation of the show, which corresponds to the origin of the party as a street game, and in the second moment, in which the party gains the name of Folk Festival and starts having visibility outside Parintins. Currently, the festival brings two guilds, “Garantido” and “Caprichoso”, both, popularly known as bulls, bring a number of items to be presented during the event. Among them, in the present spectacle model, of the Festival of Parintins, the individual feminine items are, respectively, “Cunhã –Poranga”, “Sinhazinha da Fazenda”, “Rainha do Folclore, and “Porta Estandarte”, these are the individual items. The main objective of this research is to show what these women represent not only in the arena at the moment of the show but also in the social context of the city as well as in the Amazonian society. When studying the general context of the festival, from its origins to nowadays, we find as theoretical foundation, the following authors, Wilson Nogueira (2008/2014), Basílio Tenório (2016), Simone de Beauvoir (1970), Heloisa Costa (2005). This research is a bibliographical and documentary one, since it has as primary sources works by local writers that portray the folkloric festival, works on the discourse analysis as Eni P. Orlandi (2013) when verifying the discursive image of the representation of the woman in what concerns to the said and unsaid, Simone de Beauvoir (1970) in portraying the female being in the patriarchal society. And, finally, Sandra Makowiecky (2003) and Roger Chartier (2011) when approaching different levels of representations, so that a question is asked at the end of this work about how the representation of the woman has been configured in the show and outside for the society.