Between Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro: the fight against fascism in a transnational perspective

Wanilton Dudek

doi:10.22264/clio.issn2525-5649.2018.36.2.10

Autores/as

Wanilton Dudek Universidade de Passo Fundo Centro Universitário de União da Vitória

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22264/clio.issn2525-5649.2018.36.2.10

Palabras clave:

Antifascism, Press, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Transnational

Resumen

The article presents an analysis of the antifascist struggle from the discourses present in the Hollywood Now newspaper of Los Angeles and in the journal Diretrizes do Rio de Janeiro, both of the year 1938. We try to show the positions of antifascist intellectuals of the United States and Brazil by using the press for the dissemination of their ideas and political projects. In this aspect, the article demonstrates that the debates took on a transnational dimension, connecting ideas that circulated at a global level. In Los Angeles, the political action of writers and filmmakers around the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League was important for the intensification of the anti-fascist struggle, while in Rio de Janeiro the positioning of the editors of the magazine Diretrizes expanded the debate on pan- Americanism and the fight against fascism.

Biografía del autor/a

Wanilton Dudek, Universidade de Passo Fundo Centro Universitário de União da Vitória

Atualmente cursa doutorado em História pela Universidade de Passo Fundo, e estágio de doutorado sanduíche pela University of Soutthern Califórnia em Los Angeles, onde desenvolve a pesquisa Freie Deutschland: Os Alemães Antinazistas no Brasil. Possui mestrado em História pela Universidade de Passo Fundo (2012), especialização em Sociologia Política pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (2008), graduação em História pela Universidade Estadual do Paraná (2006) e é professor do Centro Universitário da Cidade de União da Vitoria (UNIUV).

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