No tempo de um “herói” : a imprensa sergipana e o culto a Fausto Cardoso antes da inauguração do seu monumento (1906-1912)

Abstract

This article is based on the problematic of the formation of the cult of the Sergipe politician Fausto de Aguiar Cardoso in the perspective of the construction of a collective memory through the funeral rites promoted in his honor. It is intended to investigate the function of these demonstrations organized by the group of Fausto in the context of the clash of memories waged with the group of Olímpio, supporters of Monsignor Olímpio Campos. To this end, some pertinent concepts are evoked, such as collective memory and places of memory, in addition to the counterpoint between two distinct types of society existing in the past and in the present. It also uses an apparatus of documentary sources consisting of newspapers that publicized the funerals and pilgrimages, whose periodic realization aimed to legitimize the manufacture of the attributes of hero and martyr conferred on the deputy murdered during a revolt that occurred in the city of Aracaju.