Poetry for Our Lady of Conception: the written and lived

Abstract

This text, of autobiographical character, is structured in the memories of the first author's literary-memorialist writing path, evoked for this purpose or even in the form of self-referencing. The author starts with the devotion to the patron saint of his hometown, Macaúbas - Bahia, Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Our Lady of Conception), whose relationship, almost symbiotic between population/religious/historical devotees, awakens and directs his interest for the things and facts of his community until he becomes a local writer, whose work offers subsidies for regional and state history. The (auto)biographical method breaks the hegemony of the use of the third person in the scientific text and, by producing a narrative, interweaves the narrated facts with related theorists, producing a broad reflection on the studied theme. Thus, the result is a poetic-narrative text that sets elements of the religious culture of the city of Macaúbas and provides subsidies for scholars of regional history.