CENTÚRIAS - Revista Eletrônica de História

A LIFE OF SURURU

2025-09-21T13:06:30-03:00

This article analyzes how Graciliano Ramos, in his book Angústia (1936), constructs a sensitive representation of the city of Maceió at the beginning of the 20^th century, highlighting the social contradictions and existential of urban modernity. The aim is to investigate the relationship between History and Literature, exploring how the author articulates, through the plot of his text, urban spaces, in order to highlight inequalities, political tensions and the impacts of incipient capitalism on subjectivity. The approach combines literary analysis and historical context, taking into account the author's personal trajectory and the symbolic play of the environments described. The conclusion is that Ramos imagines the urban space as an oppressive force that materializes a fragmented modernity, in which the promise of progress coexists with helplessness and alienation. In this way, the city narrated in Angústia acquires almost metaphysical contours, representing the processes of attempting to insert the country into Western modernity.

PRAY, BLESS AND HEAL:

2025-06-28T14:11:48-03:00

This article, belonging to the field of History of Health and Diseases, aims to relate the historiography of Public Health in Brazil and Ceará with the memories of a healer from Lagoa Redonda, in Fortaleza. The research highlights the construction of popular healing practices and their importance for the historical narrative through Oral History. The methodology adopted is qualitative and exploratory, based on bibliographic sources and an interview conducted in 2023 with a local healer. Through this approach, the study presents prayers and blessings as complementary practices to conventional medicine, highlighting their cultural and symbolic value. Such practices, in addition to offering alternative care, also play a fundamental role in the preservation of Social Memory, contributing to the understanding of individual and collective experiences related to health. The article therefore reinforces the relevance of popular knowledge in historical approaches to healing and disease in the face of modernization, in addition to contributing to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Ceará.

MULHERES FORRAS NA JUSTIÇA

2025-09-21T11:01:36-03:00

This article aims to present, through the study of a specific case, a brief analysis of the presence of freed women in the local justice system of the city of Mariana, in the captaincy of Minas Gerais, in the year 1745. To this end, we examine a criminal case from that year involving two mixed-race freed women, Joana de Gouvea and Maria da Costa, who lived in the village of Passagem and appear in the case as plaintiff and defendant. Through this legal action concerning a threat of aggression, we seek to understand how freedwomen engaged with the judicial system of the society in question and to observe the dynamics of their social and economic relationships when confronted with events that led them to seek justice. Furthermore, this study reflects on the agency of these women within a colonial legal system that, although structured by strong racial and social hierarchies, still offered opportunities for action to freed individuals. The research also aims to contribute to the historiographical debate on the participation of subaltern subjects in the judicial sphere, highlighting how, even in the face of institutional limitations, these women were able to mobilize legal resources to defend their interests and reaffirm both their social position and their honor.