O mundo binoquiano: narrativas, mulheres e modernidades em Belém do Pará

Abstract

This work leans over on the periodical O Binóculo, that circulated in Belém in the end of century XIX, from 1897. With narrative constructed around personages of demi-monde belenense, O Binóculo weaves in its pages a binoquiana society that circulates for urbe, considering questions specifies of that society, submerged in the ideals of modernity and progress and living under the sign of the Belle- Époque. In this direction, O Binóculo develops intimate dialogues with the press “criticizes and urban and social news” of the time and its representations. Therefore, it is only possible to understand as this periodical it is became possible in Belém, in ends of century XIX, if also to understand the discuss signs that formed the bellepoquiana city.