The construction of the myth of Tiradentes: of republican martyr to the civic hero in the present time

Abstract

This research has the objective to analyze, inside of the historiography, the republican construction of Tiradentes's myth, from the popular memory, to justify and consolidate the affective power. In such a way, a bibliographic research was effected about the subject, verifying the depth of the performance of the dominant power in the hero's creation, its several faces constructed in different contexts and historical times, beyond the paper of this historian inside of this process. We confer, also, as the survival of the myth of martyr and sacrificed of Tiradentes in the contemporary, through the didactic book in our institutions of education, the speeches politicians and in agreement medias.