Nas redes das memórias: as múltiplas faces do cangaceiro Chico Pereira.

Abstract

This work aims to discuss the memories built around the Paraibano cangaceiro Francisco Pereira Dantas, better known as Chico Pereira. Natural of Vila de Nazaré (present Nazarezinho city), then district of the city of Sousa, in the backlands of the state of Paraíba, Chico Pereira served in cangaço between the years 1922 and 1928. Character rarely addressed by the historiography of the subject and virtually unknown in academic environment, this cangaceiro was taken as historiographical object in 1960 when was published the book Vingança, não. Written by the son of Chico Pereira, this book tells the Pereira family drama that, for family fights, had the fate linked to the world of cangaço. Particularly, when drawing up a historical narrative to explain the life and actions of that cangaceiro, this book builds a memory for the character in question and tries subordinate or forget a "cursed memory", undertaken earlier by the official media (newspapers and criminal cases) who signed up on the body of Chico Pereira. Whereas, in fact, the writing of history has this ability to form memories, this historiographical character work aims to problematize from the concept of social place formulated by Michel de Certeau, interested places of production that manufactured multiple memorial faces to conceive the Paraibano cangaceiro Chico Pereira.