De Catafalco a Hirsuto e Ingênuo Czar: as representações sobre Luiz Carlos Prestes pelo jornal A Federação (1924-1930).

Abstract

This study is the result of the research about the representations about Luiz Carlos Prestes by the journal The Federation (official organ of the Rio-Grandense Republican Party). It establishes an analysis of the transformations of Prestes' representations during the period between the beginning of 1924, the year in which the tour of the Prestes’ Column began, and 1930, almost the beginning of the 1930 Revolution. This study also established the embodiment of Luiz Carlos Prestes in the representations presented by The Federation and how this process happened from a gradual transformation in the own authorship of the journal, the elements that compose it, in style and language, and how this reflects in the transformations Brazil and Rio Grande do Sul have passed. As part of the research process, the analytical perspective of the journal was organized as a cultural form and social institution, as well as considering the way this becomes part of Prestes' own perception of the embodiment process in representations by The Federation. In the temporal cut, it can be seen that the representations that give Prestes a political face and a body, have their production based on a lineage of journalistic text initiated by Julio de Castilhos, whose result has unique style and language, formed by the very identity of the journal as a cultural form and social institution that are part of historical processes of conjunctural transformation. From a catafalque to a "hirsute and naive czar," Prestes has his politicians face and body represented as a process whose trajectory reflects on recognizable face and body present in the political everyday of society.