As crônicas de Flor de Lis (José Gurgel) e seus ecos de memória no espaço urbano de Caicó (1926)

Abstract

This work aims to perform a qualitative analysis of the chronicles written by José Gurgel de Araújo – Zezinho Gurgel, in the Jornal das Moças (1926), in the Sertão de Caicó. The subscriber used the pseudonym "Flor de Liz", and their narratives were presented under the title "The Note". In this sense, it is sought to perceive the content of their narratives to understand the place of the narrator's speech, to whom and to whom they served, as well as what portraits of place and time were described by the author. To understand the use of the newspaper as a source of research, we use the conceptual discussions about the chronicles and their narratives. The methodology used is part of the qualitative analysis of content, involving a set of techniques aiming at the search of the different senses of the document. On the other hand, the understanding of the production space, the studies take place from the readings in which the municipality of Caicó presents itself with its population still concentrated in the rural environment, with production turned to agriculture and animals, emerging from there the colonels and the great oligarchies of local and regional political power. In this context, it became possible to enter into the discussions about Sertão, whose understandings pervade the dual issue between coastal and interior, geographic and economic, considering that there were human beings capable of attitudes and generous and hospitable, inferring the idea of a Sertão multiple and diverse, a space in the presence of people, with which it is possible to establish a relationship of affection and belonging, constituting for this a sense of value, which gives rise to a conception of place. In this sense, the chronicles of Flor de Liz echoed there as a pedagogical tool and record of the city space and ways of life of those people, keeping memories that would surely be kept and remembered in a future time.