Golpe civil-militar: apoio de estudantes, mulheres e imprensa

Abstract

The present work entitled “Civil-Military Coup: Supporting Students, Women, and the Press” has as its central objective to understand how the speeches of students, women, and the press were produced in order to legitimize the 1964 Civil-Military Coup. since these speeches gained strength in Paraíba, especially from the episode called “Revolution of 64”. Bearing in mind that, mostly, the production about the dictatorial period in Paraíba focused on left-wing manifestations, our concern on writing about the acting of right-wing students is related with a military dictatorship narrative that allow us to think beyond the evidences provided by historiography about leftist nature narratives. Thus, bringing up other versions of these events is important in order to understand how conservative discourse gained strength in Paraíba through students, women and the press in order to understand how these manifestations were represented in newspapers and in the testimonies of those who experienced that period. Following this line of thought we are going to used methodologically the set of procedures of the Oral History, having as oral source the interviews with “right-wing” spectrum students and written sources, such as the newspapers (A União, O Norte, Correio da Paraíba e Diário da Borborema). We are also going to appropriate ourselves of the evidential paradigm presented by the Italian historian, Carlo Ginzburb, in order to understand the important “evidences” in the historical investigation process. The appropriation of the concepts required to the making of our study is related to the concepts of political culture based on Bernstein, Motta and Gomes, as well as the concept of representation embarked on ways of the cultural history from the historian Roger Chartier. In the discussion about memory, we account with the contribution of authors like Le Goff, Halbwachs, Bose and Pollak.