Zombi, zambi, zumbi : narrativas sobre Palmares.

Abstract

The historical narratives about the Quilombo of Palmares and its main leader, Zumbi, dating from the eighteenth century, does not constitute as a homogeneous discourse; instead, they show how historic buildings are dynamic in time and space. In the colonial period, for example, the Quilombo of Palmares was generally characterized as an obstacle to the Portuguese colonization of Brazil. And the name "Zumbi" did not refer to a person, but rather, the nomenclature given to the Palmares leaders by the Portuguese. Prevailed in the imperial period one regionalist interpretation of Palmares, in which the emergence and destruction of Quilombo had been, like other historical events, challenges to national unity which were overcome. So that throughout Brazilian history, diverse and sometimes contrary versions of the narrative of Palmares and Zumbi were produced and invented. In this work is composse a genealogical analysis of the narrative constructions of Zumbi dos Palmares and its relation to the structures of government established throughout Brazilian history. Analysis from the modes and educational practices of different discursive statements about Brazil and Brazilian black subjects, which are components of the relations of truth, knowledge and power. This original production done by way of a narrative composition that emphasizes the description and differentiation of such extracts using a sequential graphic storytelling (comics).