Banca de DEFESA: GABRIEL BARRETO DA SILVEIRA OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : GABRIEL BARRETO DA SILVEIRA OLIVEIRA
DATE: 29/06/2021
TIME: 14:00
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KEY WORDS:

Natal. Manoel Dantas. Space. Progress.

PAGES: 151
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research analyzes the intellectual production of Manoel Dantas about the city ofNatal in the early twentieth century. Said production consists in a series of chronicles,entitled Coisas da terra, in which the author approached some aspects of the city's dailylife, and in the conference, Natal d'aqui a cincoenta annos, in which he imagined someprojections for the future of the state capital. We consider that, in the set of thesewritings,   Manoel   Dantas   brought   out   images   of   the   city   of   Natal   in   differenttemporalities, which were attempts to stimulate the changes that were seen as necessaryby him and by the ruling group to which he was linked at that time, the AlbuquerqueMaranhão and the Republican Party, who were in charge of the state government. Thisgroup undertook actions aiming to make both material transformations in the city, andto construct representations about it - the latter being a domain in which Dantas mademuch of his contribution. We  found that  the  writings of Manoel Dantas evoked aconception of progress, an idea that was very present in the western thought throughoutthe 19th century until the beginning of the 20th century. We observed that, in RioGrande do Norte, as in other places in Brazil and in the western world, progress waslinked   to   political   practices   and   ideas   such   as   freedom.   Manoel   Dantas   initiallyassociated progress with education – a link that the governors also made in their officialmessages.  A   few   years   later,  however,   we   noticed  that  Dantas   and   his  associateschanged the discourse and started using the idea of progress in reference to the materialinterventions in the city of Natal executed by the republican governors, spreading thenarrative that these governments represented a new era in the city's history, as opposedto the monarchic period, which appeared in the speeches as being characterized by theabandonment of the capital city. The chronicles had a pedagogical character and soughtto diagnose problems that Dantas observed in the city and instruct readers to adopt newhabits compatible with a modern city. The conference serves as an example of a utopianthought, since it created the image of a perfect Natal in the future, which would have solved all the problems of the city of the present, but that was conditioned to thecontinuity of the republicans' political project.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ANTONIO LUIZ MACEDO SILVA E FILHO
Interno - 2277360 - MAGNO FRANCISCO DE JESUS SANTOS
Presidente - 1149437 - RAIMUNDO PEREIRA ALENCAR ARRAIS