Narrativas sobre o Bicentenário da Independência do Brasil: análise das produções discentes do Concurso Jovem Senador 2022

Abstract

The Bicentenary of Brazil's Independence was celebrated in 2022, with an effervescence of narratives circulating in different sectors of society. This research seeks to analyze the historical perspectives of high school students' essays produced in 2022 for the Young Senator Contest, in the context of the Bicentenary of Brazil's Independence, based on the appropriation of the history taught in schools and other social spaces about Independence and its 200 years. With the aim of discovering which battles, characters and events were mobilized by the students, promoting the continuity or otherwise of an Official History, the research was outlined by the concepts of culture of History and official history, by the ideas of passivity of Brazilians and narrative of the forgotten, by the conception of historical documents and by the method of content analysis proposed by Bardin. We concluded that the narratives produced by the students about the Bicentenary of Brazilian Independence had diverse perspectives, from those that reinforced the narrative of Official History to those that problematized the limits of Brazilian Independence.