O cronismo de Cosette no ano do AI-5:a repercussão da crise estudantil no Canto de Página

Abstract

This research proposes an exercise in re-reading the narratives published by the chronicler Cosette de Alencar in 1968 in the “Canto de Página” column, published in the newspaper “Diário Mercantil”, in Juiz de Fora, presenting the analysis of his chronicles in three different moments of the “year that did not end”: the repercussion of the death of student Edson Luís in the column in April 68, the expressive and revolutionary May 68 and the month of the “Passeata dos Cem Mil” in June 68. Following the methodology of content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin, the work seeks to detect how the chronicler addressed the issue of the crisis of education in France, from De Gaulle, and Brazil, in full military dictatorship. The analysis also seeks to see what the narrative strategies were at that historical moment, and how the student crisis scheduled the column in a newspaper that supported the military coup in 1964. It is a remembrance of this period of dictatorial hardening, half a century later, evidencing the power of the journalistic chronicle as an opinion maker in a context of censorship and repression.