Djacir Menezes

The Journey Of An Intellectual In The Province

Abstract

This article seeks to understand how an intellectual active in Fortaleza during the first half of the 20th century, situated on the periphery of a national cultural field still in the process of formation, managed to break through both geographical and symbolic boundaries and be recognized by already established or emerging thinkers, both local and national. As a premise, it is evaluated that the agent under analysis, Djacir Menezes, mobilized both his network of social relations and gathered other symbolic resources to secure his career during the time he spent in Ceará.