Violência absolvida e violência punida : a violência no cotidiano das camadas populares em Aracaju nas primeiras décadas do século XX (1917-1937)

Abstract

The present work investigates how violence occurred in the popular classes during the first decades of the 20th century. In order to do so, we sought to understand which were the hegemonic discourses appropriated by the Lawyers of Sergipe's capital, and by the literature of Amando Fontes. Criminal cases of murder and attempted murder and of verbal and physical offenses were analyzed, seeking to understand how the legal discourses reflected the hegemonic discourse of conformation of the popular classes’s conduct. In addition, the book Rua do Siriri (1989) by Amando Fontes was also analyzed, seeking to what extent the author reproduced or departed from the current discourse. From the research, it was possible to conclude that the hegemonic speeches and actions of jurists and doctors were adapted and appropriated by Law Operators in the city of Aracaju in the first republican decades in order to guarantee the conformation of the behavior of the popular classes. Furthermore, Amando Fontes' discourse echoes the representations of decent behavior for women and how violence could lead to deviation from the norm.