The Cordel Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic established a transmutation, which, although initially temporary in appearance, produced dramatic changes in the secular way of teaching and learning in methodologies and resources. It also caused profound social, emotional, and educational impacts on the academic community in general. From this perspective, in this chapter, the authors aim to identify the impacts caused by the pandemic on daily life and revealed by students in their storytelling in verse, more specifically, in cordel. For this, they used as methodology the assumptions of content analysis, in the expectation of having an in-depth understanding of the content presented by the students and making inferences, in order to achieve the intended purpose. As a result, they found in the verses impacts associated with three categories of daily life, which they created from the data processing—sanitary, personal, and social—and they found that cordel literature, by the very essence of capturing the images of life as it is, proved to be an adequate way to capture the students' voices about the topic in question.