A história dos sertões nordestinos, das ações às representações: a seca e o “roubo” do contemporâneo (Rio Grande do Norte, 1950-1951)

Abstract

The research discusses the sertão and scourge, trying to understand the relations of poverty and politics in the sertão north of riograndense, between the 1950-1951. The work focuses on the analysis of action plans that were carried out by Organs federal agencies DNOCS and Sudene, as well as using periodicals, using the newspaper A Noite, from Rio de Janeiro. With this, the research allows us to perceive the way that newspapers in Rio de Janeiro worked with the term flagellate, in addition to seeing a naturalization of the term sertão by the press. In addition, the analyzed bibliographies also bring a sertão that was not so well regarded, being conceptualized as a distant place, with dry scrubland and thin people, and which had the objective of making the sertão contemporary, but there was a certain resistance. One of the objectives of the work is to show the importance of the works created to fight drought. The theme was chosen because it tried to understand a little more about public actions related to drought, as well as to understand how the scourge was seen by periodicals in the Southeast, such as the one in Rio de Janeiro.