Teresinenses

Abstract

This non-fiction work is entirely journalistic in nature, and is characterized as a book-report. It consists of ten chapters, with nine reports on invisible characters from Teresina, the capital of Piauí: “The invisible face behind the funeral”; “The athlete and janitor who overcomes difficulties even without a salary”, “The difficulties and adaptations faced by a blind telephone operator and teacher”; “José Ferreira Neto: the lonely poet in the crowd”; “The accordion plays notes of overcoming”; “Sara Alves and the accordion: the reunion with a childhood love”; “From agronomist to successful advertiser”; “For skateboarding and for love” and “From street battles to the stage. How rap changed João Victor’s life”. The texts were written by fourth-year students of the Bachelor's Degree in Journalism at the State University of Piauí, Poeta Torquato Neto campus, and were organized by Professor Orlando Berti, who teaches the subjects that gave rise to the work (Communication and Journalistic Design, as well as Writing, Production and Editing for Print Media).

Each chapter focuses on a character who lives and works in Teresina, the capital of Piauí. The aim was to reveal the world of the invisible, of the people who are rarely highlighted and portrayed in news articles. The aim was to portray the silenced, but all of them with great stories to be told.

Of course, it is impossible to include all the people from Teresina and the invisible, all the noble people who, every day, in their own way and with their own effort, build the capital of Piauí, a city made of migrants, dreams and achievements.

The characters were chosen based on the authors' free will, and only one of them was directly suggested by the professor, since the character that would be described in the first story ended up not working out.

The only requirement was that the characters worked in the capital of Piauí, and did not necessarily need to have been born in Teresina.

What we will see is one of the most complete book-reports ever written by academics in Piauí. We will read good texts, in their various nuances, that seek to reveal these characters and show, amidst their anonymity, interesting stories, good examples and moments of people trying to make things happen.