ABSTRACT
Building authority over printed text goes through the process of distinguishing the name in a given writing regime. Following the trajectory of ditty writer and poet Catulo da Paixão Cearense, the article discusses the strategies mobilized by the writer in order to become the author of his works and a prominent poet in the Brazilian literary of the first half of the 20th century. The historicity of writing practices of an “other” that revealed in the text - the popular hillbilly - is fundamental to understanding the representation of an authorship built by the poet in his works. The authorial character of Catulo’s works is progressively consolidated through the recognition of the rules that govern the writing system and this unusual trajectory in the cultured world of that time.
Keywords:
authorship; representations; literature; cultured practices; history