Revisitando Canudos sobre o olhar do escritor Aristides Milton

Abstract

The Canudos War was an important milestone in Brazilian historiography, the facts of that scenario of transition of power from Empire Brazil to Republic Brazil, as well as the transition from one century to another, make us rethink through a critical look by Aristides Milton, in A Campanha de Canudos, which builds a very clarifying narrative of the main facts of the conflict. On the one hand, there is a band of jagunços and poor sertanejos led by Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel, better known as Antônio Conselheiro and, on the other, direct representatives of the State of the new political order of the Republic together with its repressive force that corresponds to the forces military. This work has as source the work of Milton, in addition to making a comparative analysis with the writings of Euclides da Cunha and Vargas Llosa on Canudos.