As narrativas biográficas sobre Manoel Luís Osorio na historiografia militar no contexto do Estado Novo

Abstract

In 1937, with the fouding of the publishing house of the Army’s Library, the military corporation assumed the role of reproducing and spreading their versions of historical events. This paper aimed at studying the representation of Manoel Luis Osorio in the military histotiografy of the New State trough three books, Osório by Onofre Gomes Muniz (1938), Osório na Infância, na Adolescência, na Imortalidade by Valentim Benício da Silva (1939) and Tuiuti é Osorio, Osorio e Tuiuti by José Feliciano Lobo Vianna (1940), emphasizing the representations of this historical character as a hero, model soldier and military of the Paraguayan War. I have tried to demonstrate that sougth to forge a history of the military forces as protector of Brazil, together with an ideal of the good soldier who was associated with the legality and moved away from politics.