A eleição de “heróis” pioneiros na revolta dos posseiros de 1957 no sudoeste do paraná

• Main Authors: Ronaldo Zatta, Leomar Rippel
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro 2013-06-01
• Series: Revista IDEAS
• Subjects: memory; hero; settlers
• Online Access: http://r1.ufrrj.br/cpda/ideas/revistas/v07/n01/02-IDeAS-v07_n01-Ronaldo-Zatta.pdf.pdf

The public representatives’ ideological and idealistic constructions, through cuttings merely ethnical, interlinked with the exaltation and celebration of the Revolt of the Leaseholders in the Southwest area of Paraná they were intensified in the last decade on the part of the constituted regional au-thorities, what is drawing attention from social scientists. In this sense we were also inspired to discuss the relationship of the construction of these char-acters together “firsts” such as consolidation, sedimentation, regional official of the memory, taking into consideration that the imagination can act as a regu-latory force of collective life. Our article discusses about the heroes of “settlers” from Rio Grande do Sul which were considered heroes by the memory pioneers regional official for having a different during social conflict known as the Revolt of Squatters in 1957.