A Editora Revisão e as Representações da Negação do Holocausto no Brasil.

Abstract

Considering the topics related to Nazi Germany, we necessarily have to provide voice to the reverberation of sense effects it produced and still produces, until contemporaneity. From this, we have the conflict between gestures of analysis which, many times, urge to reframe or re-significate, deny, falsify – through doubtful methods – the existence of specific historical facts, like Shoah. This thesis of dissertation comes up from a historiographical analysis, which defend the inexistence of the Holocaust, from the already extinguished Revisão publisher. This publisher, however, still hosts a dynamic website on the internet, edited by anonymous people, on purpose of spreading negationist material and e-books, hosted on sites and blogs. In this piece of work some elements, taken from the material previously commented, were considered, like the doubt about the gas chambers and, consequently, about the Holocaust itself. This thesis encounters methodological support in Document Analysis based in Cellard (2012). In order to cover Representation concept, we based on Chartier (1990) the necessary thought to understand and comprehend the representation of the negationism in its attempt to validate itself as a genuine historical field. In order to conduct this thesis, we considered necessary to map and characterize the negationist subject, the one who bases their beliefs in this pseudo-theoretical flow to judge what History as a science normally considers. On this perspective, we based our studies on Hall (2006), as an important theoretical background to think of this kind of subject, depicting them as a symptom of a post-modern paradigm. This negationist flow encounters strength and supporters mainly because it is centered in an environment which is favourable for fragmentation and volubility. This flow defines itself in ephemeral knowledge, because everything in this context is moldable – including norms, rules and conceptions. Post-modernity is a room which allows the constitution of “tribes” and “clans”. Is this scenery, minor narratives, which are fragments of wider narratives, emerge. These kind of organization and discourses reverberates in our current society, which is seeking for solutions in already failed ideology spectra. This can be noticed, currently, in the re-emerge of a conservative discourse which strengthens itself in the political and social field in many parts of the world.