Abstract

GIL MONTOYA, Rigoberto. First Readers Written and First MemoryPereira (Risaralda, Colombia) in the Early Twentieth Century:Entry into Modern Life. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2014, vol.6, n.12, pp.203-236. ISSN 2145-132X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/historelo.v6n12.42097.

The present article enquires into the production, content, and circulation of some of the first journals published in Pereira (Risaralda, Colombia) in the first two decades of the 20th Century, with the aim of tracking in them the initial images of the city, and the way the press discourse operates in the composition of some social roles. Thus, we highlight the role of the journalist in front of the local administration, and the subtle emergence of some modern actors: the subscriber, as a receptor committed with the circulation of printed material, and the reader, as the user who begins to make use of the first local libraries. Two questions emerge concerning the first written memories interwoven in the city, and the implications in the construction of a social dynamics, where the journalistic register implies a historic process which then turns into a document of primary importance for the understanding of a notion of life in community, with regard to the processes of modernization early assumed by Pereira in the 2oth century, in a period in which, in administrative terms, the city was ascribed to the Great Caldas.

Keywords : local press; subscriber; printing press; reader; journalism; Pereira.

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