O pensamento e a trajetória intelectual de Gustavo Barroso: identidade regional, redes de sociabilidade, integralismo e escrita de si (1910-1940)

Abstract

In this work, we reflect on the thought and intellectual trajectory of Gustavo Barroso between the 1910s and 1940s. For this, we analyze his books and texts in general published in newspapers and magazines at the time. In his first books and articles, Barroso addressed topics such as the sertão, the drought and the ways of life of the sertanejos, which allowed us to verify his contribution to the formation of a regional identity in Ceará and, also, to the construction of an idea of North East. We also approach his sociability networks and his involvement with the integralist movement, from the 1930s, of which he was one of its main leaders. In this sense, his anti-Semitic discourse gains prominence. Finally, we approach his three autobiographies, in which Barroso talks about his childhood and youth in Ceará, before migrating to Rio de Janeiro. Through them, we discuss issues related to self-writing, resentment and silencing that mark an ambiguous trajectory and composed of nuances and choices of the intellectual acting in his field.