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Os mártires da causa paulista: a criação do culto aos mortos da Revolução constitucionalista de 1932 (1932-1937)

2007; UNESP; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1808-1967

Marcelo Santos de Abreu,

Memory, Trauma, and Testimony

This work attempts to elucidate one aspect of the creation of the cult of the volunteers who died during the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932. Since the political and military conflict up to the 1950s, the cult has been gaining increasing formalization, which can be seen today in the rituals of July 9th. The argument is that the memory of this political event focuses on this particular form of ritualization of the past – the civic cult of the dead. The aim is, firstly, to establish the relationship between the civic cult of the dead and other forms of memory of the event, such as literature and commemorative monuments. Another aim is to unravel the appropriation of religious and civic culture used to shape the rituals. Such appropriations have given rise to something new: the civic cult of the common man in the supposedly democratic order of the 1930s.