http://lattes.cnpq.br/6472282774896644; FERNANDES, Paula Rejane.
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.
