Territorialidades e identidades mourãoense pelas narrativas histográficas - 1900/40

Abstract

This text aims to analyze how the most contemporary narratives approach the participation of the colonizing migrant, the native, and the Country in the history of the formation of the territory of Campo Mourão. The principal sources of the study were the books produced by local researchers of the most varied specializations. In the search for the narrative meaning, a comparative study between these texts was carried out, having as reference the concepts of territory and territorial identity: Haesbaert (2010) in dialogue with Le Goff's study of memory (1990); the social and cultural place by Certeau (2011); the categories of space of experience and horizon of expectation by Koselleck (2006) and the corporate model by Revel (1989). Geographers and historians/anthropologists (1950 to 2010) differ in many aspects regarding the participation of migrants, natives, and the Country in this territory's formation, whereas local authors (1975 to 2018) produce a similar and positive interpretative narrative about this participation, based on the arrival of the migrant, representative of civilization, in 1903, and the foundation of the city, a symbol of progress, in 1947. It is a selective collective memory that adapts the Mourãoense identity to the colonizing narrative in line with the state's political ideals — it is ambiguous, though, since it breaks with the village and the indigenous past. This means of narrating meets a narrative meaning based on the conquest that idealizes a way of being as both grounded and constructor of the Mourãoense identity.