Fernandes, Paula RejanePereira, Ariane de Medeiros2018-08-282021-10-132018-08-282021-10-132018-06-26PEREIRA, Ariane de Medeiros. Os Sertões do Rio Grande do Norte e o processo de modernidade: José de Azevêdo Dantas (1910/1920). 88f. Monografia (Curso de Especialização em História dos Sertões) - Departamento de História do CERES, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Caicó, 2018https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/44276Our work investigates the sertao of Rio Grande do Norte from the first half of the twentieth century, more specifically the years 1910 to 1920. In this case, we insert the research in the modernizing and civilizing discourse that takes care of Brazil. In this sense, our objective is to investigate how modernization reaches the interior of Rio Grande do Norte, specifically the sertões. To reach the proposed objective we will use the newspapers "O Raio" and "O Momento" written by the scholar José de Azevêdo Dantas. In addition to the use of messages sent by the governors of the State of Rio Grande do Norte. And the newspaper "The People" written by the republicans of the city Caicó / RN. The methodology used, in general, part of the analysis of the sources, the cataloging and paleographic reading / transcription, classification of the themes found in the documentation and problematization of the empirical questions together with the historiography on the subject. I use some concepts, among them, the backwoods of Albuquerque Júnior (2014) that understands the same as multiple and diverse and can be shaped according to the interests of society. The space is another strand, in which, we understand from the point of view of Milton Santos (1996, 1999) with a half composed of object of human actions that varies over time. Belle Époque, according to the thinking of Guimarães (2012), helps us to think about the modernizing aspects that took account of the discussions carried out by the republicans in Brazil and makes us understand that this concept is much older and discussed in Europe and reaches us with intensity in the first decades of the twentieth century. Thus, we can verify that there is evidence of a modernity in the backlands of Rio Grande do Norte within this progressive and developmental thinking and, according to the vision of Jose de Azevêdo Dantas, the sertões were inserted within the Republican logic and Belle Époque.openAccessSertão. José de Azevêdo Dantas. ModernidadeSertão. José de Azevêdo Dantas. Modernity.postGraduateThesisCiências Humanas