Purpose

This article explains the process of construction and configuration of the Brazilian social imaginary on the global '68 using the daily press as source material.

Design/methodology/approach

It looks at the narratives conveyed by the press about the condition, situation, motivations, aspirations and capacity for action of young university students. The analysis is focused mainly on the usage of totalitarian language and permits an in-depth view of the reality of life in Brazil at the time and the role played by the students in the resistance to the dictatorship. It also includes an analysis of how other students' protests of 1968 – in Poland and Mexico – were portrayed through the media, and how they helped to shape the collective imaginary about Brazilian university students, situating it in a conjuncture of broader dimensions and connections.

Findings

The youth of Brazil, Poland and Mexico were represented as active political and social subjects, capable of defying, and sometimes profoundly upsetting, the established order. Violence and the discourse of violence were constant unifying elements in the narratives created by the daily press. This helped generate an image of university students which portrayed them as a rebellious, revolutionary and/or subversive sector of the population, responsible for one of the most extensive and profound social and political crises which those countries had experienced in decades.

Originality/value

This is the first study of the Brazilian reception of the '68 Polish and Mexican students' protest and its implications for the social narrative of students' resistance in Brazil.

中文翻译：

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照镜子：巴西日报报道的全球 '68

目的

本文以每日报刊为素材，解释了巴西社会想象在 68 年全球的构建和配置过程。

设计/方法/方法

它着眼于媒体所传达的关于年轻大学生的状况、情况、动机、愿望和行动能力的叙述。分析主要集中在极权主义语言的使用上，并允许深入了解当时巴西的生活现实以及学生在反抗独裁统治中所扮演的角色。它还分析了 1968 年其他学生在波兰和墨西哥的抗议活动是如何通过媒体进行描绘的，以及他们如何帮助塑造关于巴西大学生的集体想象，将其置于更广泛的维度和联系的关口。

发现

巴西、波兰和墨西哥的青年被描绘成积极的政治和社会主体，他们能够挑战、有时甚至是彻底颠覆既定秩序。暴力和暴力话语是日常媒体所创造的叙述中不断统一的元素。这有助于塑造大学生的形象，将他们描绘成人口中反叛、革命和/或颠覆性的群体，对这些国家几十年来经历的最广泛、最深刻的社会和政治危机之一负有责任。

原创性/价值

这是巴西对 '68 波兰和墨西哥学生抗议活动的接受程度及其对巴西学生抵抗社会叙事的影响的第一项研究。