Remembering to win: the dynamics of the memory construction about Brazilian Military Regime

• Autor(a) principal: Napolitano, Marcos
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/23617
• topic: Military regime; Memory and history; Memory; Political aspects; Brazil; memory and history; Military coup; Regime militar; memória e história; Memória; aspectos políticos; Brasil; história e memória; Golpe miltiar

This article proposes a new periodization to analyze the process of the Brazilian Military Regime’s memory construction. Assuming that social memory and historical experience of a certain society are connected, we seek to analyze the organization of a “mutable memory” around the regime since the 1970’s until the first decade of the 21st century. Our central hypothesis points to the existence of a hegemonic memory, critical on the military government, built in a confluence of liberal sectors (critical about the regime authoritarian aspects in the beginning of the 1970’s) with leftist sectors, notedly the left linked to the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB). From these assumptions, I seek to investigate and to analyze more minutely three of the four phases of the memory about the regime between 1974 and 2004.