The Theatricalization of Politics: the Brazilian Movement for the Abolition of Slavery
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چکیده
Despite his pointing this out, Nabuco’s own account of the abolition of slavery in Brazil constitutes the mainstream way of retelling the history of this movement. Most scholarship takes his memories as a departure point. As Nabuco observes, however, to rely on individual memories is a risky choice. Activists such as himself usually retell their stories, attributing teleology, coherence, and meaning to former political experiences based on their position in the present. Rather than explore Brazilian abolitionists ́ individual memories, I will instead discuss a collective one: the set of past forms of political collective expression still working as orientation to action. Charles Tilly (2008) labels these clustered past political experiences a ―repertoire.‖ This concept allows one to engage with the theme of this session by raising as a problem the way the Brazilian abolitionist movement dealt with the past and the foreign collective abolitionist memory it found crystallized in a repertoire.
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