Abstract
RESUMO Este artigo analisa as interações entre narrativas da história e da literatura a respeito dos acontecimentos deflagrados na Província do Grão-Pará durante a primeira metade do século XIX, envolvendo a figura do soldado desertor Jacob Patacho. Algumas ações do chamado "cangaceiro das águas", supostamente responsáveis por "aterrorizar" as populações moradoras dos rios e igarapés da região amazônica no início da década de 1830, ultrapassaram a memória oficial e popular da época, chegando à literatura e aos compêndios de história. De modo geral, essas narrativas e memórias foram vinculadas aos estigmas da "violência" e da "criminalidade". Essa associação, aparentemente despretensiosa, contribuiu para fixar na historiografia brasileira uma visão específica das populações pobres e escravas do Pará durante o Segundo Reinado, marcada pelo sentimento do medo.
Highlights
ABSTR ACT This paper analyzes the interactions between historical and literary narratives in the Province of Grão-Pará throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, involving the figure of the defector Jacob Patacho
Some of the actions of the so-called cangaceiro das águas, allegedly responsible for “terrorizing” the populations residing in the rivers and streams of the Amazon region in the early 1830s, exceeded the official and popular memory of the time, coming to literature and history books
These narratives and memories were linked to the stigma of “violence” and “crime.” This apparently unpretentious association contributed to settle a specific view, marked by a sense of fear, of the poor and the slave populations in Pará during the Second Empire in Brazilian historiography
Summary
ABSTR ACT This paper analyzes the interactions between historical and literary narratives in the Province of Grão-Pará throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, involving the figure of the defector Jacob Patacho.
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