Um Cangaceiro de Umburanas: representações sobre Zezé Patriota (1920-1927).

Abstract

The region of Brazil known as the Northeast experienced, especially between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, the phenomenon of the Cangaço, a kind of banditry practiced by several groups of armed men, whose leaderships have been increasingly revealed through the production of historical knowledge. The present work intended to analyze the representations about the performance of the bandit Zezé Patriota, one of the leaders of the gang that traveled through the Pajeú Hinterland, in Pernambuco, in the second decade of the twentieth century. Taking Roger Chartier's (2002) concept of representation as our theoretical scope, we prioritized written sources, such as newspapers, magazines, reports and correspondence, as well as texts and videos found on websites, blogs and social networks. As a result, we produced a booklet with paradidactic purposes for the teaching of history, having as target audience ninth grade students.