Lampião e as representações historiográficas.

Abstract

Cangaço is configured, in Brazilian Northeast History, as a relevant movement, leaving traces in memory, culture and popular imagination. This group of miscreants populated the history of the northeastern hinterlands with his exploits for a long period of time, but having the height of flowering and gaining greater prominence in the first half of the twentieth century. Each representation prepared about the outlaws comes loaded with stigmata of the interests of various groups and social sectors. An important area of construction and representations about Lampião was historiography. Having historiography as theoretical support we turn our attention to the construction of character Lampião through the various faces assigned to him by the historical discourse, of Hobsbawm, Chandler and Facó. So I intend understand how these discourses contributed to the construction of his character, where each historian recounts the events that have contributed, or would justify his life in banditry. Hobsbawm seeks to understand Lampião through the economic conditions of the society where he lived, and presents him as a victim of the operating system, pointing him like a man who refused to submit himself to the orders of the colonels, and consequently joined to the cangaço. Already Facó analyzes the conditions in which the mass without land lived, because they were exploited by landowners. Thus he assigns the join of Lampião to the banditry, to the conditions of social inequality. Chandler preferred to believe that Lampião was the victim of an unequal society, in a land where justice did not work equally for all, believing that Lampião was an opportunist who had taken advantage of the situation in which he lived and sought to benefit himself about it.