THE GAZETA DE MINAS JOURNAL AND CUBA'S INDEPENDENCE PROCESS (1895-1902)
Press, Cuban Independence, Public Sphere, Political Debate
The present work aims to study the news about the Cuban independence process, particularly what is known in historiography as the second moment of this political process, between the years 1895 and 1902, in the Gazeta de Minas, an organ founded in the city of Oliveira, Minas Gerais, in September 1887 by Antônio Fernal. The discourses and representations of the Gazeta in relation to the Cuban independence process will be analyzed considering the newspapers as active elements that influenced the political, economic, and social discussions in the region of its circulation. Periodicals can be seen as a space of circulation and reproduction of diverse information, themes, attitudes and behaviors of societies and their local, but also international, surroundings. In this sense, the periodicals were one of the first media that enabled access to realities beyond those known on a daily basis. To develop our work, we base our discussions on the concepts of "public sphere" and "sociabilities". Both allow us to analyze how newspapers, from their circulation, generate social spaces and how they become fundamental pieces in the structuring of political and cultural relations.