Мемориальная культура современного бразильского монархизма
Memorial culture of modern Brazilian monarchism

Summary/Abstract: The author in this article analyzes monarchism as a form of memorial culture and historical politics in modern Brazil. The purpose of the study is to analyze monarchism as a form of historical memory. The author analyzes the role and place of monarchical intellectuals in the development of historical politics and the memorial culture that is formed and developed within the monarchical historical imagination. The novelty of the study lies in the analysis of the current (modern) stage in the development of monarchical ideology in Brazil not as a form of political participation, but as a form of development of historical memory and memorial culture. The article shows that 1) monarchism forms and cultivates its own ideas about the past, 2) the historical imagination of monarchism is a form of revisionism in history, since the monarchical past and heritage is subject to consistent positive mythologization and ideologization, 3) monarchism in its historical imagination forms alternative versions of historical memory and memorial culture that differ from those versions of national historical memory offered by republican identity. In addition, the author analyzes the spatial manifestations of the historical memory of the modern monarchical historical imagination. It is suggested that the visualization of the collective historical memory of empire, like the narrative and discursive tactics and strategies of modern monarchists, contributes to the consolidation of unique ideas about the past that form the basis of the monarchical historical imagination and memorial culture as a form of alternative memory. The article shows that monarchical forms of historical memory contribute to the heterogenization of memorial culture, stimulating the parallel co-development of alternative counter-memories that function in other systems of political and ideological coordinates.

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