A crônica no jornal O Mossoroense: 1872 - 2000

Abstract

This study considers chronicle, lato sensu, as a textual and discursive manifestation whose characteristics make it slip the attempts of a rigid theoretical framework in what concerns its nature. Literature believes in the metaphorical power of the chronicle and, therefore, claims its paternity, while Journalism argues that it is its natural cradle. The fact is that the discourses on the chronicle harbor not only the question of belonging but of its own constitution. These questions are interesting to those whose research involves the characteristic and the constitution of textual genres, and thus, in general, of studies on language. The main objective of this work is to identify and analyze the presence of the chronic genus in the newspaper O Mossoroense in the period from 1872 to 2000. In order to reach the general objective, it follows more specific objectives, as follows: 1 To analyze the discourses that involve two domains of knowledge, be they Literature and Journalism, about the belonging of the chronic genre; 2. To present the different postures of the chronicler himself in relation to his office; 3. To construct a minimal corpus, constituent of chronicles of the newspaper O Mossoroense, that is fruitful to new researches and studies; 4. List, in general, periods, themes, issues and motives dealt with in the chronicles of Jornal O Mossoroense; 5. Identify the chroniclers of each period, preserving and documenting this memory. Related to the newspaper O Mossoroense, it analyzes that, over time, the chronicle gain ground as a genre that did not only contain chronological reports related to the city, but which was reanalyzed and gained space and identity within the newspaper. The chronicle presents great political and social discussions occurred in the country, as it happens with the chronicles of the twentieth century. Since it investigates the presence of the chronicle in the newspaper, it detaches the importance of Mossoroense for the history of the Potiguar Press and the country. A journal of resistance from its foundation to today, struggling to resist the weather.