Sacrifício, heroísmo e imortalidade: a arquitetura da construção da imagem do Presidente João Pessoa

Abstract

Considering Paraíba, especially the capital and the great social commotion about João Pessoa s death in July 1930 expanded by the exuberant conditions that his funeral was held. We discussed in this study the symbolic building architecture that have made the symbolic image of the president João Pessoa, after his murder, he became a myth in the political and social scenario. Thus, our claim is to contribute to the production, movement and perception history of João Pessoa s symbolic image. This research documentary corpus were the local and other states newspapers that publicized the news of his death and the celebrations of the hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1978. We also worked with the mausoleum built at Palácio da Redenção gardens, and as well as with João Pessoa s last photo, taken in Recife, minutes before his death, widespread among the population. The central focus of our problematization were the various forms of this historic event dissemination and its perpetuation that involved the local and other states press, historians, memoirists and biographers of him, as well as official departments, the creation of memory places that together constituted the historic culture of death and nearly immortality of him, and after considered saint, hero and martyr.