Das Terras Seridoenses: uma análise dos discursos e participação de Dinarte Mariz na política oficial de 'combate à seca' (1954-1959)

Abstract

This dissertation presents the results of an investigation about the connection between the trajectory of Dinarte de Medeiros Mariz and his relationship with the sertão of the Seridó of Rio Grande do Norte, namely his performance with the official policy of “combating” the drought, considering his participation in SUDENE. The objective of the research was to problematize how, as a subject who was forging for himself a political character that represented the sertanejo, he articulated himself with the national policy concerning droughts, appropriating himself as the representative of Rio Grande do Norte. To answer the questions, we approached a specialized bibliography that deals with themes such as sertão, droughts, political trajectories and the history of official bodies for the development of the national policy of combat/containment/control and coexistence with droughts. Based on the reading of authors/es, we reflect on Mariz's political trajectory, on the official policies enshrined in bodies such as IOCS/DNOCS/SUDENE and how, among personal, institutional and official efforts, the drought emerged as "the problem of the Northeast", and later in the Northeast of Brazil, while other reasons of a human nature, and therefore historical, that justified the social problems faced in the region, especially in periods of drought, were masked. In this way, we take as a time frame the years 1954 - 1959, which comprise important periods, with regard to political issues, drought, creation of institutions and the social problems faced in the aforementioned space. From the point of view of the field in which this work is located, we identify it in a zone of confluence and correlation between Political History, Cultural History and Social History from which some concepts become relevant to the understanding of the object, such as: discourse, representation, politics, sertão and modernity. Thus, from the point of view of the sources used in the research, we highlight the Minutes of the Deliberative Council of the Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast - CODENO and of the Superintendence for the Development of the Northeast - SUDENE, and the publications of the newspapers Diário de Natal, O Poti, Diário de Pernambuco and the newspaper O Commercio.