Crônica histórica na obra de Mário Sette:

o problema das contribuições do modernismo regionalista para a historiografia do Recife (1920-1940)

Abstract

This article intends to present reflections on the possibilities of using the work of chronicler Mário Sette in historiographical research on modernization events that underlie the urbanization of Recife. Antonio Paulo Rezende, Raimundo Arrais, Magdalena Almeida and Beatriz Sarlo are used as theoretical references, and Luiz Costa Lima as a reference for literary criticism. These authors help the reflection of Sette's production from elements of fiction, imaginary and reality, and also the implications of its double character as a primary and secondary source. It is concluded that Sette's work presents challenges of an ethical-political nature to the researcher, if considered as a secondary source, but as a primary source it can help to understand the authoritarian character of the urban reforms of the early twentieth century, by allowing the analysis of implications subjective aspects of physiognomic transformations and the reactions of the intellectual field of regionalist modernism to the perspective of the urban planners of the period.