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- Title
Ad Immortalitatem: how politics was manifested in the Investiture Ceremonies at the Brazilian Academy of Letters During the Military Dictatorship (1964-1979).
- Authors
Cunha, Diogo
- Abstract
To what extent was the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) able to serve as an instance of legitimization of the military dictatorship established in Brazil after the 1964 coup? This article aims to examine a specific aspect in the daily life of this institution during the military dictatorship: the investiture ceremonies. We believe that this approach allows us to analyze how politics were able to operate "apolitically" within the ABL. We argue that the ceremonies may have become political events because they demonstrated, first, the proximity and networks of sociability between the conservative intelligentsia and the regime, and second, we have identified the transmission of values in several speeches that were, at that time, those of the conservative environment. An examination of the investiture ceremonies has indicated that the ABL helped to legitimize the regime which was established in Brazil in 1964. However, this legitimization did not take place by means of an overt "collaboration", but through the behavior of all its members, their proximity to the representatives of the regime and the diffusion and circulation of a conservative discourse.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; MILITARY government; DICTATORSHIP; SOCIABILITY; RITES &; ceremonies; PRACTICAL politics; EVERYDAY life
- Publication
Anos 90, 2021, Vol 28, p1
- ISSN
0104-236X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22456/1983-201X.103560