Daily bibliofágico (Leandro Narloch) Politically Incorrect Guide to the History of Brazil - Leandro Narloch
I finished reading the Guide earlier this month, but only now post about it. It one of the most controversial books - not to say controversial - recently launched in the Brazilian publishing market, for an emerging publisher who has specialized in bestselling nonfiction the Leya (the same as Dangerous Minds, the popular manual on psychopathy written by psychologist Ana Beatriz Barbosa), which quickly gained notoriety due to the premise suggested by its title and will inform about the of the critics (and not so specialized so) on it for a while surmounting the bestseller lists.
In fact, it is a work packed with information - sidewalks on data, records, academic studies and other journalistic investigations - the politically incorrect about the history of our country, my ass down "without mercy" on many of the myths / historical figures, proposing a new vision or removing the debris from some episodes extraoficiais panoramas significant in Brazilian history - when not trying to resurrect a scenario already considered outdated and identified with the conservative viewpoint, unilateral and domineering of the story thus denied by a portion grained modern historians - that certainly will not find in textbooks, efforts that deal mainly with nationalistic and ideological imbalances. Indeed the Narloch Leandro, author of the book, defines his work, not without a tinge of sarcasm, as "a small collection of serious historical research, irritating and unpleasant, chosen in order to infuriate a good number of citizens," ie, his intention is ; undoubtedly provoke.
And he does. Presenting the book to a friend of mine, an atheist communist purple, I gathered a good deal, though contained, indignaçãoe disdain by most of the fruits of information "serious historical research" engendered by the author many denouncing his rightist ideological vision. And do not deny: soon to learn, through the description in the ear of the cover of the book, the journalist Leandro Narloch has been Reporter See ¹ (plus editor other reviews in April, Adventures in History and Superinteressante ), my suspicions that there was an intention irrefutably anti-leftist, anti-nationalist than most, behind many of the hypotheses made statements , s exposed, interpretations advocated and prioritized studies awaiting my exploration of the work, only grown up reading the work of alleged research the historical revisionism of the Narloch confirmed. Revisionism with reservations, since now explaining about one aspect of Guide stressed above that there is also the intent of rescuing views on events and figures of the well appointed home in vogue prior studies and investigations post-dictatorship, driven by the belief that these journalist the lightly rejected in favor of activism and academic-ideological, anti-basing his pretentious "treaty" with studies performed by various historians today, based on records, documents (including letters from members of the pro Pippen Narloch attacked by organizations, see the above Elza on the case, the girl killed by guerrillas armed struggle, at the behest of Prestes, in the chapter on the communists) and data "forgotten" or (re) recently discovered.
I am not a leftist radical, however; I am fully aware that the revision applied to academic historiography, biography of the great names and route groups and subjugated peoples, marginalized, and whose contribution to socio-economic, cultural and history is overlooked or ignored on the one hand, and the DescriptionThe cause analysis of major historical events, on the other, various factors and data have been lost in the midst of such restructuring , or will have been stifled in favor of a militant tuned to review ideological and nationalist leftist force in the intellectual and academic since the overthrow of military dictatorship, did not fail, therefore, inversion of values coupled with a simplistic and / or Manichean smo: bad right and left good, all the settlers that Indians as evil exploiters symbols of purity and ecological communion with nature, and merely black slaves at the mercy of whip of the master, when not presented as a rebel optical decontextualized opportunistic and ideologically, as if they were the forerunners of the Communist revolutions of the twentieth century or atavistic in relation to archaic social structures tribal collectives, with regard to their ideals and training will quilombos. Interpretations of history that recover the value, importance, and smothered truths about ethnic groups and / or socially disadvantaged, but alleges that uprooted a genuinely dialectical view of history, due blind as to the complex web of relationships established between the various groups and classes of each season, between masters and servants to take time and another exchange or securities that are not conventional assigned to them by history: eg cases of Negroes (the guide gives special attention to black women, Xica da Silva was not the only) freed they became rich, influential and had, including slaves, social and economic ascension tied to a cruel irony easily understandable the light of the dialectics of power, moral and psychological compensation that we feel in inflicting suffering to another, even our pair when instrumented with the power that had not tí hemp and victims of which were now eager to enjoy it ². Until Machado de Assis strove for such behavior in Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas , and moral complexity that is inherent, especially where the logic comes into play feelings and interests and, consequently, the moral dilemma in one of his most sublime and disturbing tales, Father Against Mother .
not want to give here a laurel wreath to Narloch Leandro, for amidst all this way of Review demystification of so many things we learned in school or with which we face at the university, including the right kind of fervent and militant fanatics, there are also plans shady, opportunistic and ideologically and culturally biased. We can use many of the arguments and some of the historical interpretations in the book against the author himself. Mistrust engendered research by historians and journalists from both left and right, because in both cases to give rise to the ideological use of those unscrupulous, the handling of data, documents and interviews, as well as respect and trust in the work of several that, in my view, are more serious and well intentioned and / or well-founded than those of other historians more concerned with truth and conscious of the dialectic of the historical process rich, that with the militancy. Leandro Narloch when curled up by the more attentive readers and critics, easily falls into the ideological trap that sees itself: the same way that uses a historiographical reasons for attacking the left, making it more explicit in its purpose as the book moves at a fast pace, exciting and provocative, leading strategically in the chapter on the actions of the Brazilian communists in the periods before and during dictatorship, one sees the biases of their arguments, sympathy or apology even some conservative figures of the painting's history as a counterpoint to his obsession with exposing rotten, vilified and ridiculed by all the references and documentation that historically had access to, those sãoo focus of their journalistic streak ferocious and poisonous, that is, those who are generally considered heroes (Zumbi dos Palmares and Solano López, for example) almost unquestionably and darlings of the Left and nationalists patrolmen, or geniuses (Machado of Assisi, the Santos Dumont, here deposed from his title of father of aviation, points transferred, of course, to the Wright brothers). Yes, the very Narloch no secret of its aim of meeting certain targets, seeking to expose "only errors of the victims and heroes of kindness, only the virtues considered villains, but the it directs how such ideologically critical position and sometimes to the verge of slowdown mutilation of the physical cultural, inflicted on victims in order to better direct the prosecutor to look at them with the least possible deviations, is overwhelming. In almost an attempt to blame the victims suffered the reproaches in the chapter devoted communist, he points to the hypothesis that the armed struggle itself was primarily responsible for the hardening of the regime military dictatorship: a afirmaçãoa be considered, including drawing on logical principles, although based more on historical interpretations biased and not as reliable documents and autocomiserados of the military itself, but there is no plausible argument that allegedly would enable such an argument used against those who rightly are among the biggest victims of the dictatorship , most brutally murdered: turn victims into villains by pernicious interpretations of history is nothing but a sly inversion of values, the same which implies Narloch want to fight. There are researchers
bit suspect in which the journalist has its foundations to develop their Guide, see William Waack (but justice is done, this research about the Communists was well stocked with records belonging to the very members of armed conflicts, such Letters to the commander Luiz Carlos Prestes and his entourage), and underline the Narloch know straight from the books and documents to further serve their interests. On the other hand, is great and healthy for critical consciousness and questioning of ideas and values against nationalists who succumb to a more calculated, rather than simply expanding the baggage of historical knowledge, check how some of the "figures of the country" are human beings like any others, so yes incurred in errors, and that even leftist revolutionaries could be so cruel and tyrannical as to overthrow the military dictatorship that dreamed; is noteworthy, also, that much of the supposed revisãoa Guide intends already in ; it is nothing new, such as proof that Indians are not as friends of the forest as you paint (indigenous peoples around the world have, for example, those responsible for the extinction of animal species and the destruction or sterilization of the habitat itself, being forced to migrate to more fertile places), details about the Slavery of Zumbi, as I described in subparagraph ; graph above, that only a few protesters and patrol politically correct movements and organizations nuclei descent turn up their noses, but perfectly consistent and compatible with the historical condition of black African peoples in their homeland (it's undeniable, many studies show that the historical the existence of slavery and African empires developed that even remotely resembled the coexistence collectivist image that is imposed by scholars who make the configuration of various ancient peoples, especially the tribals, although such empires were noo, etc.).
In short, the Politically Incorrect Guide the History of Brazil is to be read with a critical conscience always on alert and undressing of ideological bias, including the time to confront the prejudices the same order as the author himself, not so ironically, distills the wire by this pretentious collection of historical accounts put in reverse, as intriguing as, for good and for the poorly virulent.
¹ Simply the Brazilian weekly tabloid that more wars against left, drool over the egg business, a stronghold of the post-fascist whose model is the most obnoxious and narcissistic pseudointelectualoide antilulista repressed Diogo Mainardi, is non vero?
² It is worth noting also that many of the blacks brought to Brazil living in communities in Africa where slavery was normal practice, social and economic mainstay, until some noble holders of slaves, so common that would fit in this group that felt entitled to his slaves if they could get funding for this, after freed. There is also the logic of compulsory acculturation.
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