Historical Representation: An analysis of the memorial record of Xica da Silva in the documentary work of Joaquim Felício dos Santos
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v25i2.31055Keywords:
Representation, Memory, Xica da SilvaAbstract
The present article describes and problematizes the memorialist representation of the historical figure Francisca da Silva de Oliveira in the work Memórias do Distrito Diamantino da Comarca de Serro Frio (1868), by Joaquim Felício dos Santos. Based on a literature review that includes discussions about the historical veracity of the events recorded in official historiography and the formulation of representations in history, we aim to understand how the representation of Xica da Silva, arising from discursive and social constructions, reflects and propagates the existing meanings in the Brazilian socio-historical imaginary about black women. To this end, we base this research on theorists such as Bakhtin and Voloshinov (2006), Pesavento (1995; 2012), Achard, Furtado (2003), Car (1996), Chartier (2002), Hall (2016), Le Goff (1990), Ricoeur (1994; 2007), Thompson (1998), among others. With this investigation we verified how the formulation of respective Afro-Brazilian character, verified in the work, evidences the currents of opinion, ideologies and social movements existing around the black race, which, disseminated by the authorial discourse, are taken as the official version of events and, consequently, as "historical truths".
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