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of a private war, gang war, digital militia, others, Lulismo, pop charisma and anti- The post informed that, on March 14th,
staged in the real time of desire, for critical culture (Hedra, 2011) at the IEL amphitheater, there would
them to live in the Brazil of their dreams, be a debate table in which it would be
configured the nightmare that became CULTURaL WaR/SOCIeTY [pageS 54 TO 57] discussed “whether or not the institute
Bolsonarism.Intervention: Love doesn’t should cancel Monteiro Lobato, whose
mean much, it gave shape and concept THE UNIVERSITY, collection is at CEDAE/Unicamp.” And
to that psychopolitical process of another CENSORSHIP, AND so it was. Professors from IEL and the
order regarding Brazil›s experience, as you CANCELLATIONS technical coordinator of CEDAE, Roberta
and a few other critics and intellectuals Botelho, participated in the panel. This
pointed out - I remember Laymert Garcia The increasing prohibition of literary works time, what was at stake was canceling (or
dos Santos, Ismail Xavier, Leandro Saraiva in educational institutions is already a not) an archival collection. We have some
and the group of social linguists from reality; institutionalized proscription may questions here that deserve discussion.
UFSCaR, professors Luzmara Curcino and be on the way Unicamp keeps an important part
Carlos Piovezani... Studying the concrete bY TâMaRa abReU of Monteiro Lobato’s archives at the
movement of those masses on the networks, “Alexandre Eulalio” Documentation Center
the element of irrationality and the desire Cancellations of literary works and works (CEDAE), located at the entrance to the IEL
for violence always stood out to anyone of art in general are on the agenda inside building. Cedae was part of the event that
who wanted to see. However, there was and outside Brazil. So far, nothing new. discussed the writer’s cancellation. Let’s
very little interest in the film, when he was Censorship has already taken Flaubert assume that IEL admitted to canceling
talking about it all alone, in 2016. A political and many other writers to the courts of Lobato, responding to demands from some
film, made to intervene, produce, generate accusation at different times in the history students and social media. What would
knowledge about what time it is and where of humanity. The causes and ways of this mean? Remove the two thousand
we were, in front of which, half the audience applying censorship take on new contours documents from CEDAE and return them
burst into tears and in despair, and the depending on the time and context of to the family? Delete your books from the
other half refused as a principle the reality production, reception and circulation of university library? Cross out Lobato’s
of what they saw, of a country they didn›t these works. One of the most interesting name from the subject syllabi of Literature
know, but wanted to govern... So, after the reactions to the current prohibitory winds courses (if it’s still there...)? Judging by
evidence from the film and its research, we has been the opening in October 2023 of what has been happening over the last few
had to support some of the best minds in the Museo del Arte Prohibido (Museum years and considering that the proscription
the country, already in 2018 , saying that of Forbidden Art) in Barcelona. This is the of literary works in educational institutions
Bolsonaro would not win the election... and, first museum space whose collection is is already a reality, nothing is surprising
among them, this was also the Workers› made up only of works of art that have been anymore. Institutionalized interdiction
Party›s understanding of the political and censored and banned throughout history. could well be on the way.
social process we were experiencing. In There are more than 200 works, including The stakes are greater than one might
other words, no understanding. A sad Picasso, Goya, Klimt, Andy Warhol and think when a university discusses such a
political movement, of inattention to other outcasts. serious issue with an air of banality. It is
one›s own culture, alienation from the Recently, two Brazilian states ordered worth noting here that a writer’s personal
terms of popular life and embezzlement the removal of O Avesso da Pele (by files do not fall from the sky. Nor are they
in particular ideas, from one›s own self, Jefferson Tenório) from school libraries made of random papers or any documents,
that did not correspond to history. A under moral pretexts. Writer Lia Neiva but of historical sources that testify to
certain conceptual bankruptcy, in our had a book banned by the City of Rio Claro the past and allow scholars to produce
own field, the same one that Mano Brown (SP) in 2022, under the same allegation. the existing historiography of Brazilian
denounced at the time at the fiscal dance Considering the necessary differences, literature – which is still a product of
party between the Democrats. The fascist cases of institutional censorship are related its time and is always subject to new
delirium, evident, dangerous, easy and to informal censorship practiced under the interpretations. The process of donating
expansive, was completed in the negative guise of “cancellation” on social networks. an archival collection by the heirs of a writer,
hallucination of the left itself, which was JK Rowling, Road Dahl, Camões, Dante, until the acquisition by the supporting
doing its best in refusing to recognize what Shakespeare, are just a few cases among institution is formalized, is legally complex,
was happening in front of its face. And, if the classics of international literature. At laborious, has a series of steps and multiple
he saw it, when he saw it, he burst into the national level, the most emblematic actors.
tears, and not into thought, criticism and and controversial case is that of the writer The documents that make up the
real strategy. That was the social fate of Monteiro Lobato. We will stick to it from important collection of the writer Monteiro
that film, quite revealing of something more now on. Lobato would never have ended up at
than our foolish and impotent fixations. In An Instagram post recently published Cedae without the initiative and competent
Brazil, we experienced a war between two (03/04/2024) on the official account of work of the teacher, now retired, Marisa
delusions, one positive and violent, the the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) Lajolo when she was in charge of the
other negative and behind the times. The at Unicamp caused controversy. The thematic project “Monteiro Lobato (1882-
political history of this film is the history communication strategy adopted by the 1948) and other modernisms Brazilians”,
of a split culture, to some extent all of it IEL management when posting the event financed by FAPESP. In numbers, we are
schizophrenic. publicity card, a semiotic bomb with talking about more than two thousand
high potential for social media, was the documents including rare books in first
*Tales Ab’Sáber is a psychoanalyst, following: a photo of Monteiro Lobato’s editions, leaflets, periodicals, hundreds
essayist and filmmaker, professor of face vandalized with the inscription of handwritten and typewritten letters,
the philosophy of Psychoanalysis at the “RACISTA” scratched on the forehead by photographs, drawings and watercolors,
Federal University of São Paulo, winner the writer is topped by the title question in addition to seven objects.
of two Jabutis awards, author of, among of the event “Should IEL cancel Lobato?”. On the premises of IEL and CEDAE,

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