Oraliture, Dramatic Dances and Multicultural Pedagogies

Pio Zirimu and Mário de Andrade’s Theories

Abstract

Pio Zirimu is the Ugandan linguist who, in the 1960s, conceived the concept of “orature” and some of its basic constitutive principles; by confluent bias, “Danças dramáticas do Brasil” is the title of an essay by Mário de Andrade, originally published in 1944. The present study aims to reflect on the convergence between both critical categories, from the perspective that the Brazilian writer anticipates, in his comprehensive analyses, many of the distinctive characteristics of this poetic construct and theoretical apparatus that, under the names of "orality" or "orature", is under accelerated constitution and broad dispute, nowadays. From the perspective of formative-pedagogical strategies with a multicultural bias, the conceptual categories mentioned above open space for inclusive approaches to cultural manifestations and aesthetic languages of a popular nature, pluralizing the inclusion, within school curricula, of specific cosmovisions marked by ancestry and collective memories belonging to subalternized populational segments upon the conflicting territory of Latin America.