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Examples of Books about the Dictatorship
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Historical Dictionary of the Dirty WarsUnlike a conventional war waged against a standing army, a "dirty war" is waged against individuals, groups, or ideas considered subversive. Originally associated with Argentina's military regime from 1976-1983, the term has since been applied to neighboring dictatorships during the period. Indeed, it has become a byword for state-sponsored repression anywhere in the world.
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ContraculturaISBN: 9781469628523
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies.
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Engendering Democracy in BrazilBrazil has the tragic distinction of having endured the longest military-authoritarian regime in South America. Yet the country is distinctive for another reason: In the 1970s and 1980s it witnessed the emergence and development of perhaps the largest, most diverse, most radical, and most successful women's movement in contemporary Latin America.
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Memory's turn: reckoning with dictatorship in BrazilIntroduction: the turn to memory in Brazilian culture and politics -- Testimonies and the amnesty law -- A prime-time miniseries and impeachment -- Literary and official truth-telling -- From torture center to stage and site of memory -- Conclusion: memory's turns and returns.
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Revolution in the Terra Do SolSarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War-era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years.
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