ABSTRACT
Between 1820 and 1823, Brazil experienced what was traditionally known as the independence process. During political disputes, the press served as an active platform, conveying the ideas of its editors and representing the ideological segments they espoused. This article analyzes the political discourse present in the pages of the newspaper O Brasileiros em Coimbra, edited in Portugal by Bahian Candido Japiassú. To do so, we use as a reference the content of a letter published in the newspaper by an anonymous Bahian woman identified only as “F”. The very dynamics of the feminine universe of the Figueiredo e Melo family and the subjectivity of “F”’s view of the war of independence in Bahia can be analyzed based on the dialogue of the different scales of analysis between the micro and the macro, in direct harmony with the methodological proposal of microhistory.
Keywords:
Press; Gender; Independence of Brazil