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Guide to the Richard and Sandra Lauderdale
Graham Brazilian Chapbook Collection MS 650
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Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77005
[email protected]
URL: http://woodson.rice.edu
Guide to the Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook Collection MS 650
Table of Contents
Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3
Biographical / Historical ................................................................................................................................ 3
Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................
Controlled Access Headings ..........................................................................................................................
Collection Inventory .......................................................................................................................................
Series I: Authors A-L, and unknown ..........................................................................................................
Series II: Authors M-S ................................................................................................................................
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Guide to the Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook Collection MS 650
Summary Information
Repository:
Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Title:
Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham Brazilian Chapbook
Collection
MS 650
ID:
Date [inclusive]:
Physical Description:
Language of the
Material:
circa 1960-1990
0.5 Linear Feet
Portuguese
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Biographical / Historical
The inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets known as cordel literature (from the Portuguese term
literatura de cordel, literally “string literature”) originated in rural northeastern Brazil as humble poets
and artists used this means to reach a popular audience. Containing folk novels, poems, and songs
illustrated initially with woodblock prints and later with photo images, these booklets were sold at fairs
and by street vendors. Production of the booklets reached a peak in the 1920’s and 1930’s, but the present
collection makes clear that they were still being created in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Many of the booklets are by unknown authors, but names identifying the writers of others include
Jose Soares da Silva, Marcelo Soares, Davi Teixeira, Maca Moreco, and Altair Leal. Artists of the
illustrations are likewise not always identified, but the woodblock prints of at least Jose Francisco Borges
are accompanied by his name. Borges’ work has been exhibited in the Louvre and the Smithsonian.
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Scope and Contents
The collection consists of fifty-seven inexpensively produced booklets of verse with woodblock print
or photo image covers. The booklets are quarto size, 4-3/4” by 6-3/8”, and range in length from eight
to forty-eight pages. The content is in verse in stanzas of six, seven, eight, or ten lines. The booklets are
examples of a folk art known as literature de cordel, or “string literature,” because of being attached to
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strings as a means of displaying them for sale. The content, meant for peasant audiences, is about real
and imaginary events and characters.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement
Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston, Texas 77005
[email protected]
URL: http://woodson.rice.edu
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was a gift donated by Richard and Sandra Lauderdale Graham in 2014.
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from the Brazilian Chapbook Collection must be obtained from the
Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
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Controlled Access Headings
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Chapbooks, Brazilian
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Collection Inventory
Box 1
Series I: Authors A-L, and unknown
Title/Description
Instances
Author unknown: “Chicuca” O Professor dos Ladroes
Author unknown: Historia de Zezinho e Mariquinha
Author unknown: Perinho e Julinha
Author unknown : O Crentee o Cachaceiro
Francisco Sales Areda: O Encontro do Negro Testa de Aco e o
Bamba do Serido
Francisco Sales Areda: O Homem da Vaca e o Poder da Fortuna
Joao Martins de Athayde: O Casamento do Calangro (2)
Joao Martins de Athayde: Historia da Escrava Guiomar
Joao Martins de Athayde: Historia de D. Genevra
Joao Martins de Athayde: Nobreza de um Ladrao
Joao Martins de Athayde: Os Martirios de Jorge e Carolina
Joao Martins de Athayde: O Principe e a Fada
Joao Martins de Athayde: O Solado Jogador
Jose Francisco Borges: Afinando a Lingua
Jose Francisco Borges: Homenagem a os 100 Anos da Abolicao
no Brasil
Jose Francisco Borges: O Cavalo e os Macacos
Jose Francisco Borges: O Verdadeiro Aviso de Frei Damiao
Joel F. Borges: O Viajante Boateiro
Severino Borges: Casa das Criancas de Olinda
Francisco de Souza Campos: As Palhacadas do Amigi da Onca
Francisco de Souza Campos: No Pais de Tudo Grande
Jose de Souza Campos: A Voz de Noe
Jose Severino Costa: Historia de Joao Tampinha - e Maria
Temperada
Joao Vicente Emiliano: Um Matuto Na Cidade
Jose Gustavo: Peleja de Jose Gustavo com Maria Roxinha da
Bahia
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Sebastiao Jose Do Inascimento: A Verdadeira Historia de
Joaozinho e Mariquinha
Barboza Leite: Verdadeira Historia da cidade de Duque de Caxias
Joao de Lima: O Pranto de jovelina
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Box 1
Series II: Authors M-S
Title/Description
Instances
Guriata do Norte: Discussao de Vida-Torta com Chica Pendao
Adalgiso Carlos de Oliveira: A Valente Cascavel o Assombro do
Serrtao
Jose Pacheco: A Intriga do Cachorro com a Gato
Jose Pacheco: Historia da Princesa Rosamunda ou a Morte do
Gigante
Jose Pacheco: Os Sofrimentos de Jesus Cristo
Fracisco Firmino de Paula: Historia do Boi Leitao ou o Vaqueiro
que nao Mentia
Joao Parafuso: O Encontro da Velha que Vendi Tabaco com o
Matuto que Vendia Fumo
Jose Pontual: 2n Peleja de Jose Pontual com Vicente Emiliano
Jose Pontual: Pra Poder Casar Com Ela
Leandro Gomes de Barros: Historia da Princesa da Pedra Fina
Joao Melquiades Ferrera: Historia do Valente Sertanejo Ze Garcia
Filbas de Jose Bernardo da Silva: Historia da Princesa Rosa
Joao Jose da Silva: Amor de Mae
Joao Jose da Silva: Cidrao e Helena
Joao Jose da Silva: Laureano e Carminha
Joao Jose da Silva: O Menino dos Bodinhos e a Princesa
Interesseira
Joao Jose da Silva: Os Olhos de Dois Amantes por Cima da
Sepultura
Joao Jose da Silva: A Princesa Anabela e o Fulho do Lenhador
Joao Jose da Silva: A Queda do Egoismo e os Lacos do Amor
Joao Jose da Silva: Rosinha e Sebastiao
Joao Jose da Silva: O Sertaqnejo Antonio Cobra Choca
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Joao Jose da Silva: Os Tres Cacalos Encantados e Tres Irmaos
Camponeses
Severino da Silva: Peleja de Pinto com Milanez
Severino da Silva: Peleja de Severino Pinto com Severino Milanes
Olegario Fernandes da Silva: O Quadrao Beira-Mar
Jose Soares da Silva: Camoes
Jose Soares da Silva: O Encontro de Camoes com Cancao de Fogo
Jose Soares da Silva: Peleja de Jose Soares com Jose Costa Leite
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