History, memory and subject: the historical narrative and the reappropriations of the subject

Abstract

In recent decades, the biographical study has undergone a renovation and drew the attention of researchers to study the subject as possible and research fabric of historical narrative. Following this path, it’s proposed, in present study, discuss about the reappropriations, by the historical narrative, the images produced about Priest Marcos de Araújo Costa, one of the most important politicians of Northern Empire, in the first half of the nineteenth century, however, remembered by history, especially for his work as educator. It’s believed, however, that memory built by Piauiense historiography about Priest as "meritorious educator" does not contemplate the complexity of his social and political activity. This memory (re) created, which manufactures and distributes a story on this subject, represents a production marked by the social position of their producers, through biographies and chronicles, have created a memory writing that their discussions focused only on the educational character of Priest Marcos. This production has built a memorial that displaces the subject of such complexity that the circled to create, for storytelling, an area of fiction that, rather than describe, perform a movement to (re)creates the subject as an educator. This knowledge produced about Priest Marcos was able to build in the narrative, a memoir that is transmitted to other writings, turning spaces, assigning different values and meanings to the path traveled. So think about Priest Marcos, political and educational activity, as well as the ways constructed by Piauiense historiography to represent him and insert him as one of the most prominent educators of the nineteenth century, constitute the objects of analyzing of this study, which uses as theoretical bases the studies by Michel de Certeau and Jacques Revel.