Latin American Uprisings; Decoloniality; Canudos; Tomóchic

Resistance and uprising movements have an important presence in Latin American narrative. Suffering people, fighting people, are usual characters in the stories told in this part of the world. The texts provoke questions, dispute power spaces used to trace a profile of the revolted. This research starts with two stories of big cultural impact. The uprisings in Canudos, Brazil and in Tomochic, Mexico. Originated in relatively distant places, into the region, these stories uncover parallelisms, that allows to configure a study object. This object is constructed from the signs its existence leaves in the culture. Words, gestures and images allude to the resistance and uprising movements and their particular characteristics in Latin America. Is highlighted the strong repercussion both narratives have found in the Literary camp as well as in Historiography. The existence of a consolidated version of the facts is questioned in this thesis where an alternative telling is presented, as a result of the analysis performed. The mythic dimension is also contemplated, a contrast is done showing the big difference between considering the rebels like popular heroes or like religious fanatics. Likewise, an analysis is done about the circulation context of these stories, Latin América and its identity issues, the persistence of colonial power and the epistemological challenges of Latin American society. A consequence of our research is the develop of comprehension models for resistance and uprising movements using a cyclic paradigm. Contemplate the struggle of involved forces from a bigger temporal frame, assuming the seniority of the civilizations that populated this region before invasion from European nations. In this way too, appreciates, expanding the geographic coverage, the simultaneity and coincidences, between stories from different places and moments, as a consequence of colonial oppression. This thesis affirms that resistance and uprising narratives, with all the restrictions that have been contemplated, are a unify element, indicting the existence of interest and enemies in common in Latin América. This work affirms, the presence of insurgents that never give up suggest the existence of a fight that still continues to the present day.