Slavery as archive fever: Erasure and happening in brazilian history

Abstract

This text intents to discuss the complexity of Brazilian slavery archive in their dimensions of erasure and happening in the country's history. For this purpose, a comparison between two discursive productions placed in the Brazilian social context will be taken as the axis of this discussion: the 1890`s Brazilian Republic Anthem and the 2019`s samba song produced by the Carnival School Estação Primeira de Mangueira. Taking as a reference the Derridian notion of archive fever, the intention in this article is to explore the subversions presented by this innovative concept of archive which is strongly marked by the Freudian notions of memory and death drive, as well as to posit that the deconstruction of the metaphysical concept of archive falls into the political field and has important consequences.