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Schneider, Nina and Atencio, Rebecca J. (2016). Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil: The Double-Edged Role of Artistic-Cultural Production. Lat. Am. Perspect., 43 (5). S. 12 - 29. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-678X

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Abstract

A conventional approach that takes into account only official reckonings might lead one to believe that Brazil has lacked a culture of memory of the military regime, at least until recently. Widening the scope to include cultural production, however, provides a different view: one of a long tradition of reckoning with the dictatorship. In postauthoritarian Brazil, the process of transition has been marked by a disjuncture between the profusion of cultural responses to the dictatorship era and the legalistic silence resulting from the 1979 amnesty law, which continues to grant impunity to former human rights perpetrators. An approach that, instead of emphasizing political measures, asks how cultural production may have impacted Brazil's particular way of approaching its violent past helps to answer such questions as how to reconcile the lack of popular mobilization in the 1980s with the fact that guerrilla memoirs turned out to be best sellers and whether culture served as a catalyst for debates about the authoritarian past. In the Brazilian context cultural production appears to strengthen the amnesty framework (reconciliation) rather than to undermine or overcome it (mobilizing for punishment). The function of cultural and memory work is double-edged, requiring a close reading of both the portrayal of violence in each cultural work and the larger historical and political context of each country case.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schneider, Nina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Atencio, Rebecca J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-264989
DOI:	10.1177/0094582X16647715
Journal or Publication Title:	Lat. Am. Perspect.
Volume:	43
Number:	5
Page Range:	S. 12 - 29
Date:	2016
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-678X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE; MEMORY; TRUTH Multiple languages Area Studies; Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/26498