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Lampião, Luiz and Padim Ciço: Three icons of the Brazilian Northeast

University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA, greenfie{at}uwp.edu

This article focuses on the collective memory within the Brazilian Northeast of three iconic figures, a renowned bandit, a miracle-working priest and a famous singer, identifying and analyzing the attributes that account for their status as regional heroes. It suggests that these attributes form a counter-narrative that casts them as champions of the powerless and victims of injustice, themes that resonate among and reflect the lived experience of the northeast’s masses. This element of resistance later served as a regional counter-narrative to a dominant national history that derogated the Northeast.

Key Words: collective memory • history • regional identity • regional memory • Padre Cícero

Memory Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, 393-410 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1750698008337559


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