Maçonaria e antimaçonaria: uma análise da “História secreta do Brasil” de Gustavo Barroso

Abstract

The general objective of this thesis is to analyze the narratives Anti-Masonry spread in Brazil, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, especially the book Secret History of Brazil written by Gustavo Barroso in 1937. From the study of different traits displayed by the Anti-Masons narratives from the early eighteenth century, especially in Europe, we seek to understand the links of continuity and new elements added by the work of Gustavo Barroso, who dialogued with the climate of political radicalization and growth of authoritarianism that characterized particularly Brazil from the 1930s. Nevertheless, the speeches anti-Semitic, Anti-Masons and anti-communists, delivered by the Chief of the Militia Integralists, becomes the central axis of a narrative that seeks explanations for the sequences of events, told the secret, which ravaged the country in that context. This situation is aggravated by clashes between the National Liberation Alliance and Brazilian Integralism, especially among the years 1935 to 1938.