“Diário da Tarde” newspaper from Ilhéus- site of memory

Abstract

This paper aims at analyzing the newspaper “Diário da Tarde”, from Ilhéus as a site of memory, in this town of Cacao’s region in South Bahia. So, it was carried a survey which has aimed to locate, identify and characterize pages and literary supplement on that newspaper, which was founded on February 10^th, 1928 and kept open until 1998. Through a qualitative approach, it was possible to realize that the spaces to publications of literary texts were placed on columns entitled “Conto da semana” (Short story of the week), “Vesperal” and “Cosmorama”. According to Pierre Norra (1993) the sites of memory are born and live in sake of the feeling that there is not spontaneous memory, and it is necessary to create files, keep and carry the anniversaries or birthdays celebrations, pronounce the funeral, make contact, because that operations are common. The importance of the literary publication on the newspaper can be analyzed from short story, reviews, disclosing notes of awards received by authors like Gilberto Freire, and his book “Casa Grande e Senzala”. Those publications were carried between the years 1931, 1933 and 1935.