Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea (Mar 2016)
L’immaginario politico delle memorie: Brasile 1964-1985
Abstract
From the numerous forms of symbolic good produced in Brazil and pertaining to the period of the dictatorship, itself a stimulus for political commemoration and constant subject of debate, we have chosen to concentrate on the analysis of books, considered partisan (auto)biographical reconstructions with historical and documentary aspirations. In general, these products represent the testimonies of those directly affected by repression, including exiles, political prisoners and opposition politicians (whether indicted or not) as well as more moderate critics, such as intellectuals, journalists, legal experts and academics. The aim is to deconstruct and analyze the early stages, the most emblematic “surges” into memoir and the transformations that would be undergone by a form of literature that was both highly active in its criticism of the coup leaders and their dictatorship, and particularly courageous in expounding instances of imprisonment, torture and the various forms of abuse taking place within institutions.
