Representações da política imperial no jornal Gazeta da Bahia de 1879

Abstract

This paper analyzes the Empire’s political representations in the newspaper Gazeta da Bahia, the official publication of the Conservative Party. In order to compose a panel of the power struggles undertaken by the Baiana elite in the late 70s, in the 19th Century, it investigates the rhetorical belligerences consolidated by the conservative faction around social issues which were debated on this newspaper, which were related to the administrative power centralization and decentralization matter, to the current political party role in this context, to the political and social freedom concepts, to Brazilian modernity. To do so, the methodology followed an investigation plan of fifty printed editions in 1879, from number 5 to number 34, as well as the ones published in September, from number 200 to number 220. Although there had been more than two hundred publications of this newspaper in the highlighted period, the scope of the corpus was defined by the limitations imposed by the nature of the chosen genre for the presentation of the research results, enabling its content enlargement and systemic improvement in a future approach.