“Só os Vitoriosos Esqueceram”: Intelectuais de direita e as disputas pela memória da ditadura civil-militar brasileira.

Abstract

This present work talks about the intervention of an intellectual field right from the second half of the 1980s, in the dispute process by the memory of the 1964 coup and civil-military dictatorship. This is a case study, in which I analyze the discourses and forms of action in the public space of the Colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, Colonel Jarbas Passarinho and Olavo de Carvalho. The choice came from the interest in examining the images of the dictatorial period produced by these individuals and specific forms of intervention in the public space in which they are involved. To this end, I get a central question, which is, know what legitimizes the entry of these intellectuals in "battles for memory" of the dictatorship. Thus, the objective of this dissertation is examine the intervention of those who I call as right-wing intellectuals in the process of dispute and attempt to build and social recognition of a version of the recent past as they are relativized negative aspects associated with civil-military governments, namely, the crimes committed by state agents. The central theme of the proposed research is the analysis of argumentative strategies and framework of the memories and forgetfulness organized by these individuals who go to public defend the ideas of an intellectual field, as spokespersons. Finally, the choice by the names of Passarinho, Ustra and Olavo de Carvalho occurred in order to cover the narratives constructed not only the military who participated and were active figures during the dictatorship, but also those individuals who continued and incorporated new elements in such speeches after the political opening and the end of the state of exception. That is, a way of understanding the complexity of these narratives and different places of speech in defense of the dictatorship.