The main purpose of this Doctorate Dissertation is the critical investigation of the different and varied sets of discourses produced about The War of Canudos. The corpus chosen for the analyses of the topic comprises documental and journalistic material on the period the event took place, as well as on the echoes of the war in its multiple historiographic, literary, imagetic, and cinematographic subsequent representations. Based on theoretical assumptions both from New Historicism and the contemporary literary studies grounded on constructivist perspectives, a model for a biographic-historiographic writing was elaborated in order to problematize the gender in question, centered upon concepts of integration and totality. An opposed-to-synthesis and mosaic version of the matter is thus offered, as it is thoroughly based on the coexistence and contiguity of the multiple options for the proposal of construction of both a relevant historical event as the one taken place in Canudos and of the war`s leader`s figure, Antonio Conselheiro.