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FUKS, Julián. A resistência. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2015.

Editorial of the volume 43, number 1 (2017) of Estudos Ibero-Americanos (Ibero-American Studies)

GODOY, Marcelo. A Casa da Vovó: uma biografia do DOI-Codi (1969-1991), o centro de sequestro, tortura e morte da ditadura militar. 2. ed. São Paulo: Alameda, 2015.

The text proposes an analytical approach to the filmic adaptation of The Maias (by the Portuguese director João Botelho in 2014) to establish and present some thought about the successful historical connection between film and literature. At the same time the paper focuses on the reflective and thoughtful nature that art can take to raise questions about the possible (dis)continuities between a nineteenth century novel and the literary adaptation. Therefore, cinema is a fertile soil to promote the artistic creativity and, on the other hand, it allows rethinking canonical questions concerning the nation that are still contemporary today.

GODOY, Marcelo. A Casa da Vovó: uma biografia do DOI-Codi (1969-1991), o centro de sequestro, tortura e morte da ditadura militar. 2. ed. São Paulo: Alameda, 2015.

This article analyses three photographic initiatives with the objective of discussing some of humanist photography’s manifestations after the Second World War, and its relations with the conflict. Starting from one of the first photographic series made by Claudia Andujar, on Brazilian families (1960-62), some possible relations with the photographic reportage People are people the world over (1948-49) and the exhibition Family of Man (1955) are identified, and therefore a dialog is established between the mentioned photographer and the humanist photography movement, especially in its American strand.

ASSY, Bethania. Ética, responsabilidade e juízo em Hannah Arendt. São Paulo: Perspectiva, 2015.

The last decade has witnessed a historiographical renewal aiming to emphasize the role played by the Latin American countries during the Cold War. Following this tendency, the article argues that far from being a passive actor, Eduardo Frei’s Chilean Christian Democratic Government (1964-1970) conducted an independent foreign policy, defying the strict loyalty to the Americanpriorities and building new bridges with the Socialist camp. Very soon, Frei’s administration, encouraged by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabriel Valdés, decided to establish diplomatic relationships with the USSR, and, immediately after that, with five other Eastern countries, prompting political, economic and cultural links with the Soviet Bloc. Moreover, since 1968, this renewed international approach facilitated a commercial rapprochement with Mao’s China and the Cuban Revolution, with which Santiago signed an agriculture agreement, marking the end of the isolation policy against Cuba contracted in OAS. The attitude of the Chilean diplomacy triggered a strident controversy in the Latin American context and resulted in Fidel Castro’s recognition, a leader who had previously attacked Eduardo Frei’s “Revolution in Liberty”. All these elements allow us to state that, to a large extent, Salvador Allende’s foreign policy since 1970 had its roots in the earlier global international opening.

SEIXAS, Xosé M. Núñez. Fascismo, guerra e memória: Olhares ibéricos e europeus. Porto Alegre, Santiago de Compostela: EdiPUCRS, USC, 2016.

The article carries out a historical-anthropological reflection on the relationship between the nationalization of the samba, the institutionalization of the Samba Schools Recreational Guilds, and the political constitution of the mestizo national identity in the Vargas Era (1930-1945). The samba is conceptualized as an “heterotopic practice”, and is argued that, in its nationalization, the samba’s communitarian associations operated as agents of the resignification of the Brazilian racial conflict, providing a dialectical character to Vargas’ mestizo identity project.

This article intends to make a balance of different discourses produced about contemporary Brazilian culture between the beginning of the 1980s and the beginning of the decade of 2010. In the cut-off period, there were crossings that marked the re-readings of various cultural movements of national affirmation, among which the so-called tropicalist movement, we intend to observe different perceptions regarding the estate left by the initiative. In this sense, hemerographic materials, academic or non-academic essays, musical initiatives and traces of memories constitute supports that help to perceive the different efforts of meaning of the being of the national culture. From the analysis of discourses, viewed as producers of meaning in everyday life, proposed by Mary Jane Spink and Benedito Medrado, the article seeks to understand the extent to which Brazilian cultural movements have produced certain places of power in an attempt to define a Brazilian identity, and, consequently, gaps in its constitution and affirmation.

The problem of unemployment since the 1970s is a field of research that has not received much attention yet within the political historiography of Chile. Taking a historiographical point of view, this paper seeks to contribute to the knowledge about processes and political means with which the dictatorship faced increasing unemployment. Dictatorial measures failed to boost employment and solve associated social problems; they “succeeded” only in terms of flexibilizing employment within a neoliberal framework that sought to reduce workers’ rights leading to labor precarization.

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Os anjos de Canudos: uma revisão histórica (Eduardo Hoornaert) (Petrópolis: Vozes, 1997)

This research seeks to study the representation of delinquents and criminals through the narrative and visual discourses present in three magazines of the Chilean Investigation Police: Detective,Criminología y policía científica and Criminología, published in the period of time covered here (1934-1961). The analysis focuses on the so-called “delinquent galleries” which appeared in these publications and whose visual reiteration, in addition to the editorials, notes and articles written there, would help to generate a common sense regarding what should be understood by then as a social enemy.

This study analyzes the reports presented by Johann Jakob von Tschudi and José Fernandes da Costa Pereira Junior on events in the Province of Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 1860. Tschudi, ambassador of the government of the Helvetic Confederation, produced his report after Colonies, especially the Colony Santa Leopoldina, where Swiss immigrants, their countrymen, were sitting. Costa Pereira Junior, president of the Province, reacted with revulsion to the description presented by the visitor, opposing himself vehemently. The study illustrates events and shows the present play in socio-political and economic relations at the heart of the colonialist project of the Imperial Government involving diverse actors.

Editorial of the volume 43, number 2 (2017) of Estudos Ibero-Americanos (Ibero-American Studies) 

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