NARRATIVES OF ORIGIN IN AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS

This article intends to understand the production and circulation of digital texts produced from the narratives of self-identified individuals as members in the Afro-Brazilian religious communities, mainly from Umbanda and Candomble, and whose origin is the spiritual entities worshiped in religions, specifically the Pombogiras, feminine entities that represent, for many authors and faithful, the importance as a woman role in the religious hierarchy and in the most diverse social strata. The paper takes advantage of studies carried out by Monique Augras and Jules Michelet to understand the importance of elements of European social life present in such narratives, while seeking in Jean Derive indications of the aesthetic dimension of African oral poetic artifacts. We resorted to Bakhtin in the search for notes on textual genres and on authorship, and Marcuschi to define aspects of digital genres. The study also presents, as preliminary results of analysis, the relationship between the problems related to the tension between the ethical, aesthetic and cognitive dimensions, according to the discussion inaugurated by Bakhtin, highlighting the way in which the contents sought in European social life grant the authors the necessary distance so that authorship, combined with authority, can serve any individual, besides pointing to the need to deepen the studies geared to the genres in question.