Intelectuais no Sertão: o Club Romeiros do Porvir, a produção e circulação de representações em torno da intelectualidade, da cidade do Crato-CE e dos sertões (1900-1910)

Abstract

Self-appointed of “Romeiros do porvir” some young guys founded in 1900, in the city of Crato, a literary association. Around the Club Romeiros do Porvir, these intellectuals endeavored, in addition to artistic purposes, to build and circulate representations of progress, of intellectuality and the Sertões (like the “other”, seen from Cariri). Thus, we are concerned, in this dissertation, with understanding how the members of this group built and circulated such representations. For this, we investigated the intellectual trajectory of some members of the association, as well as, cultural conditions and practices emerging at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century; we seek to understand how the intellectual and cultural performance of the members of the group contributed to the construction and circulation of representations around themselves and the spaces in which they were inserted; and, finally, we analyze the ways in which the “Romeiros do porvir” built and circulated representations around the sertões. The theoretical dialogues occurred, mainly, in the field of Cultural History from the studies of Roger Chartier (1990, 2002) and from the concepts of cultural practice, representation and circulation, worked by the same author. In order to understand the performance and organization of intellectuals, studied by us, the concepts of intellectual, networks of sociability and generation, worked by Jean-François Sirinelli (1996); and, those of trajectory, field, habitus and the circle of mutual praise, present in the studies of Pierre Bourdieu (2002), were important tools in the elaboration of this work. Sources such as the newspapers A Liça and Cidade do Crato, literary texts, memoirs and minutes of the administrative meetings of the association were used.