Entre batalhas e papéis: a cabanagem e a imprensa brasileira na menoridade (1835-1840)

Abstract

Between battles and printed papers: the Cabanagem and the Brazilian periodicals during the Minority period (1835-1840) proposes a methodological redefining the historical and historiographical construction of the cabanos’s war. Returning to the analysis of some Brazilian periodicals at the first half of the nineteenth century, specifically between the years 1835 and 1840, I argue that the cabanos’s narrative history should be expanded beyond the crafts, proclamations and correspondence between cabanas e anti-cabanas authorities. In this study, the research was done in a rich and diverse list of editorials, articles and notes periodistics printed during the Minority period. They are outside and inside of periodicals of the former Grão-Pará, overturning the myth that – because there was no periodic regularly circulating during cabano‘s episode (1835-1839) – would hardly have to research these News organizations. I also intend to demonstrate, through the analysis of two newspapers of Rio de Janeiro: Correio Official, The Sete d’Abril, and the paraense periodical Treze de Maio (this was born immediately after cabano’s episode in 1840), that the cabano’s narrative war had a national circulation and that such disclosure contributed greatly to the creation of a memory-historical of this Amazonian movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.