DISPUTES OF POWER TO REGISTER “THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF CASCAVEL”: MEMORIALISTIC LITERATURE AND LOCAL HISTORIOGRAPHY IN PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This text is dedicated to dealing with some of the disputes that took place in the process of constitution and institution of public memories of the city of Cascavel - PR. Such versions on the local past are present in several places of memory, but specifically, we selected two works - one of  memorialistic and the other historiographical literature - that denote these conflicts, namely, "Cascavel, the History", by Alceu Sperança, and Vander Piaia's "Earth, Blood and Ambition: The Genesis of Cascavel". In order to do so, we seek to analyze the works by reference to the themes of the founding myth, elaborated to establish the origins of Cascavel, and the conceptions of urban heritage they disseminate. It should be pointed out that, in relation to the origins of the city, the disputes between  local versions of the analyzed past become more visible, since while one of the works presents the formulation of a constitutive narrative of the foundation myth, the other aims to undertake such plot.