The Dialogue of Violences in Dictatorial Brazil

Abstract

This article presents a preliminary reading of the political pamphlets, from Brazil, and Latin America in general, that are preserved in the Special Collections department at Senate House Library of the University of London. The source of the themes discussed range from publications of worker unions and human rights organizations, to various church declarations, and other material with economic and political aspects. This collaboration aims to propagate these documents and their potential as alternative narratives to dominant discourses regarding the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964-85. By using the theme of violence, both structural and physical, as a framework, this article poses a new perspective on how to interpret the ideologies that appear in those discourses.