Contenu du sommaire : Nouvelles écritures de l'histoire du Brésil

Breaking the silence : antisemitism in Brazil This article discusses one of the most complex mythologies of Brazilian national history, those of Getúlio Vargas and a the very complex host of foreigners, between communism and anti-Semitism, of the Estado Novo (1937-1945), regime who has not stopped growing a deliberate and variable ambiguity between European fascisms and democracies. The author gives there a vigorous work on a —still debated— a monolithically and “cordial” past in Brazil.

Dictatorship, Amnesty and Reconciliation : dark Years in Brazil The author reported on the memory of the dictatorship. This contribution is a brilliant synthesis of the link between memory and history during the dark years that began in 1964 by a coup generating very little resistance and which nobody thought it would lead the military to remain in power nearly two decades, ushering in a dictatorship in 1968 no longer concealed his name. But, after the democracy's restauration, unlike Argentina, Brazil did not challenge the 1979's amnesty and still refuses access to some of the national archives. Despite a really less bloody dictatorship than the one of the south bank of the Rio de la Plata, the path of the memory is perhaps more complex than the way for democracy.

Understand Power or Democracy ? International Relations' historiography in Brazil This article analyzes the formation of the historiography of international relations produced in Brazil. It's examining its institutional development sites, and the nature of the research programs in place. The development of specialized historiography has been strongly influenced by institutional settings with restricted career paths in large academic centers, and the process of re-democratization of Brazil, mainly in line with the Constitution of 1988, contributing to the expansion research programs.

A Specifically Chronology ? Uses of Gender Category in Brazil and in the the Southern Cone Historiography The “gender” category in Brazil and in the countries of the Southern Cone had a very different trajectory from that known from the French and North-American historiographies. Associated to the instrumentation by the NGOs and the institutionalization by the democratic governments which came after the military dictatorships, this category is many times thought to be apart from feminism and women's history. Political disputes in the academic and activist fields echoes on its usage. The aim of this article is to debate the criticism and the ways the “gender” category has been utilized in the history texts from the Southern Cone countries.

An evolution laboratory of the discipline ? Social Labour History Social Labour History, or Labour History, is considerably grown up in Brazilian History these last decades. It matches with the anglo-saxon definition “Labour History”, with the French definition “Working Class and Social History” and with the German definition “Arbeitergeschichte”. Labour History has different development in Europe, North America where it declines and in Asia, Africa and Latin America where it is active. Marcel van der Linden uses the word of “globalization” in order to qualify this new kind of historiography. The brasilian example is in this case of Social Labour History transformation. It requires to give new definitions and subjects.

Journals' use : methodogical comments on a new territory of brasilian historiography The main goal of this paper is the discussion of the use of periodical sources within the Brazilian Historiography, which beared an increasing importance throughout the last decades. The author intends, moreover, to present and systematize a set of procedures of theoretical and methodological nature, which are implicit within researches on such materials that are not always clearly explained. In fact, this manner of utilization as well as the set of questions addressed to news-papers, magazines and reviews turn them into both source and the object of this work.