The “Invisible Atom” In The Defense Of Progress And Civilization Ideas: João Gumes, Citizen Writer. Caetité, 1880-1930

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Diego Raian Aguiar
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/36623
• topic: Alto Sertão da Bahia; Citizen-Writer; João Gumes; Country Progress; Alto Sertão da Bahia; Escritor-Cidadão; João Gumes; Progresso Sertanejo

The end of the Empire and the resulting beginning of the Republic led to significant changes in Brazil. The old Brazilian structures began to break down and social, economic and political changes were already visualized in society, based mainly on ideals spread by a new elite. In Caetité, territory of the Alto Sertão da Bahia, the spread of progressive discourse and wanting change was the responsibility of João Antônio dos Santos Gumes, Caetite intellectual, author of numerous novels and owner of A Penna newspaper. For the production of this article, Gumes’ ideas were put under analysis, especially those contained in his novel Os Analphabetos and his newspaper A Penna, aiming to understand the dynamics of Caetite society and the Alto Sertão da Bahia after the Abolition of Slavery and Proclamation. of the Republic. In fact, it is for defending these two events that João Gumes is here presented as “Citizen-Writer”, a concept previously used by Pires (2011) and based on Sevcenko’s studies (2003). The studies developed in this research, therefore, lead us to the understanding that the territory in question also went through the dynamics of progress in Brazil in the early twentieth century, besides providing the understanding of the citizen João Gumes, writer in great part of his life as a combatant of the existing delays that made it impossible for his backlands to enter the “modern age”.