What the coup wants to silence: literatura and politcs in Brazil, today

Abstract

In order to consolidate itself, the 2016 “soft coup” in Brazil must contain the democratization movement that strengthened in the country in the last years, especially by the access to public education and the valorization of the peripheral spaces of cultural production. The coup was against the rights of women, of Black and indigenous people, of workers, of the inhabitants of the peripheries, of the LGBT population; against their social insertion and against their forms of expression. But it also was against public education, against freedom of expression and teaching, against critical thinking. More than ever, we need to be attentive to the voices that they want to keep silent, to what they have to tell us, to what they add to our understanding of our reality and to the widening of the aesthetic resources available to reinterpret the world. This text intends to be part of this process of resistance, discussing some possibilities of writing in times of exacerbation of fascist discourses.