Mossoró: uma cidade impressa nas páginas de O Mossoroense (1972-1930).

Abstract

This dissertation aims at studying Mossoró - RN, during the period between 1872 and 1930 through the local journal "O Mossoroense", first newspaper founded in the city. We study this source in order to analyze the way as it describes the modernity in Mossoró. Such modernity is result of the modernization process, that is, the acquisition of modern life elements as the newspaper, the light, the cinema, and the car. Furthermore, this research seeks to investigate how the newspaper writing describes and creates the city involved with the new, with the progress. We also investigate how the journal constructs an ideal inhabitant to pass and to use the city space: healthy man, without addictions; reserved woman worried with housework. In conclusion, we make a dialog with the Cultural History because it permits us to question the ways how the past thinks, nominates, and represents itself in a way to produce senses which orient the inhabitant from the past to live and to feel the world.