Narrativas Sateré-Mawé : oralidade e dramatização

Abstract

This works presents the production of the four dramatized texts based on the oral narratives of Sateré-Mawé taken from the book `The beautiful Stories of Sateré-Mawé.’ In oder to make this research more concrete it was necessary to study the oral texts for the performances of the witness of the human voice as the principal part of the literary text. Talking from the panoramic point of view about the presence of the ethnic group of Sateré- Mawé who live at the bottom of the Amazona as well as the image made of the Indian in the 19th century until it had its won recognition as Sateré Indian while it became the part of the current context. Also if studied the narrations, dialoguing with the literary, philosophical and anthropological thought as to attribute it a scientific features. Finally it reflects on the dramatization of the narratives of the Sateré-Mawé and the process of the creating the texts in the dramatical language. On creating the articulation of the narratives and offering them new meaning of the theatrical language, seeks for itself the aesthetic pleasure and the regain of memory. This research has important theoretical studies as the bases about the concept of myth in the studies made by Barthes (2012),the primitive studies of the analysis made by Lévi-Strauss (1986), and the studies of Paul Zumthor (1997, 2007) that brings a wide range of approach on the oral literature. One of the concepts dealt, is the performance that is in the concept of this author, the competence of the subject depends on that he knows to do, to say and to be in the space and time at his accomplishment. As the studies of Walter Benjamin (1994), in his rehearsal 'The Narrator' in which he analyses that the true narrator would be the one knows to give advices. And the only one who is closest to the oral narrators is the narrator par excellence because he exchanges experiences with the public. KEY WORDS: Narratives. Sateré-Mawé. Theater. orality (speakig skills).