Doutrina remanescente : a atualização da memória integralista nos anos 1990

Abstract

Brazilian integralism risen in 1932 had a trajectory of setbacks following its shutdown in 1937, however, its militance has continued working towards the movement’s ascension to this day. This research aims to investigate the relation the militance kept with the movement's history, memory and its update in the decade of 1990. The analysis is made through the newspapers Renovação Nacional (Rio de Janeiro/RJ) and A Voz do Oeste (Lins/SP), besides the newsletter Alerta, from the Centro Cultural Plínio Salgado (São Gonçalo/RJ). It focuses on the discourse presented by the militance about the movement’s identity, strictly related to its history, its relation with the nation, its religiosity and the combat against a continuous state of crisis in society. The movement’s history is recalled by the militance as an answer to current issues, revisiting critical moments with a silver lining. By counterpart, one can notice the resentment from the militance towards the state of the movement and modern society’s characteristics, as well as the disputes they wage among themselves and with entities from outside of Brazilian integralism. Finally, here are analysed the roles of patriotism and civism as perceived by the 1990’s militance, and the continuity and update of the movement’s rituals and symbols, which are partially used and conditioned by the historical context.