ZUMBI DOS PALMARES: A NEW TIRADENT?

In the early 1970s, the figure of Zumbi, head of the "Black Republic of Palmares", which he symbolized, began to grow in the collective imagination to such an extent that he is on the way to integrate the national heroic pantheon after three centuries of forgetfulness . From the analysis of the historiographical variations on the character and from the examination of the modalities of fabrication of the myth we will try to show how this phenomenon says a lot about the clashes about the memory that shake Brazilian society