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Cultural Policy and Practice in the Nova Republica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Joan Dassin*
Affiliation:
Ford Foundation, Rio de Janeiro
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Civilian rule was installed in Brazil in March 1985, following a gradual liberalization process that had been largely controlled by the military since the mid-1970s. Because no decisive rupture with the previous regime occurred, the first several years of the Nova República were marked by continuous debate about the extent to which the Nova República had broken with the authoritarian past or represented simply a continuation of the old “system.”

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Copyright © 1989 by the University of Texas Press

References

Notes

1. This paper was researched and written in 1986. Since then, political events have revealed even more clearly the “continuismo” of the Sarney administration.

2. Florestan Fernandes, “O politicismo burguês,” Folha de São Paulo, 26 June 1986, p. 3.

3. See Marlyse Meyer and Maria Lúcia Montes, Redescobrindo o Brasil: A Festa na Política (São Paulo: T. A. Queiroz, 1985).

4. See César Guimarães and R. A. Amaral Vieira, A Televisão Brasileira na Transição: Um Caso de Conversão Rápida à Nova Ordem, Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), Série Estudos no. 44 (Rio de Janeiro: IUPERJ, 1985).

5. “Análise Estrutural do Ministério da Cultura,” Documento Preliminar, Ministério da Cultura, Secretaria Geral and Secretaria de Modernização Administrativa, Oct. 1985, pp. 9, 13.

6. Marília Pacheco Fiorillo, “Sem Eira Nem Beira Nem Gente Que Queira,” in Nova República: Um Balanço, organized by Flávio Koutzii (Porto Alegre: L & PM Editores, 1986), 115.

7. “Muito Entusiasmo, Poucas Realizações,” O Globo, 15 Feb. 1986, p. 1.

8. Ibid.

9. Ibid.

10. “Como Intelectuais e Artistas Vêem a Substituição,” O Globo, 15 Feb. 1986, p. 1.

11. Regina Echeverría, “A ‘Revolução Cultural’ de Celso Furtado,” O Estado de São Paulo, 22 Apr. 1986, pp. 1–3.

12. “Sarney Define Objetivos da Cultura,” O Estado de São Paulo, 22 Mar. 1986, p. 18.

13. Antonio Carlos Prado, “Cultura Dada, Se Olha os …,” Senhor, no. 176 (1 July 1986), p. 43.

14. Ibid., 44.

15. “A Cachaça e a Broa-de-milho,” O Globo, 15 Feb. 1986, p. 1.

16. Prado, “Cultura Dada,” 45.

17. Matinas Suzuki Junior, “Cultura É Qualidade de Vida, Diz Furtado,” Folha de São Paulo, 21 Feb. 1986, p. 49.

18. Zuenir Ventura, “O Ano do Desacordo,” Caderno B Especial, Jornal do Brasil, 29 Dec. 1985, p. 1.

19. Zuenir Ventura, “O Papel da Cultura Agora: Entrevista Joan Dassin,” Caderno B Especial, Jornal do Brasil, 8 Dec. 1985, p. 12.

20. Joan Dassin, “Memoirs of the Generation of '68: A Case Study of Fear and the Political Text in Brazil,” forthcoming in The Culture of Fear in the Southern Cone, edited by Juan Corradi, Manuel Antonio Garretón, and Patricia Weiss-Fagen.

21. Joan Dassin, “Introduction to the English Language Edition,” Torture in Brazil (New York: Vintage Books, 1986), ix-xix.

22. Jaime Wright, “Torture Never Again,” One World, no. 116 (June 1986):16.

23. Zuenir Ventura, “A Psicanálise da Tortura: Entrevista com Dr. Amílcar Lobo,” Caderno B Especial, Jornal do Brasil, 14 Sept. 1986, pp. 6ff.

24. See J. L. Werneck da Silva, A Deformação da História ou Para Não Esquecer; Brasil: Os Anos de Autoritarismo (Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 1985).