O Dragão do Mar : uma reflexão sobre memória, biografia e autobiografia de João Cândido Felisberto

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Patricia Coutinho Rangel da
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/13202
• topic: João Cândido; Revolta da Chibata; Memory; Biography; Autobiography; Qualitative interview; João Cândido; Revolta da Chibata; Memória; Biografia; Autobiografia; Cândido, João, 1880-1969; Brasil História Revolta da Esquadra, 1910; Marinheiros Brasil Biografia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The main purpose of this paper is to bring a reflection about João Cândido Felisberto s memory, biography and autobiography, a important person to the Revolta da Chibata in Rio de Janeiro at 1910. It will be done the review and comparison of two main documents. The first one are his memories written in 1911, published in A Gazeta de Notícias paper from Rio de Janeiro between December of 1912 and January of 1913. The second one is an interview given by João Cândido in 1968 to Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS), which is stored in the files of the museum. Both documents have made in different moments of his life and in a different historic context. The first one has made between all the happenings in 1910, in his prison, before people and publicity have made him a person of interest for Brazilian history. The other one was one year before his death. In this period, there were books written about him, therefore, his person and image has become a great influence in different areas of society. Therefore, both documents express João Cândido s memory. Our main goal is to reveal the process of memory construction which our main character experienced and also recognizing João Cândido s perception about himself and the uprising.