Cabanagem: linhas da história e entrelinhas da literatura

Abstract

Along the research performed in this dissertation, we intend to investigate how one fact, specifically Cabanagem, is narrated according to different writers. At first, we selected some historians, that are: Domingos Antônio Raiol, Luis Balkar Pinheiro e Márcio Souza. However, our main focus was on the way that different novelists, Francisco Gomes de Amorim e Márcio Souza, narrate that event in their books, Os Selvagens and Lealdade, respectively. And as they are compared, we realized that they establish another meaning about Cabanagem: whereas the first one consider it as something criminal and codemnable as well; the second one sees it as an act in favor of freedom and, therefore, very fair. So, whether in the history or in the literature, according to the author, there will always be a different manner to see and narrate the Cabanagem.