Grafipar Edições: an erotic reaction to military dictatorship

• Autor(a) principal: Fernandes, José Carlos
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Amaral, Agnes do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Internacional de Folkcomunicação
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/folkcom/article/view/19299

During the first decade of brazilian military dictatorship, a publishing house from Curitiba - Grafipar -, owned by a muslim family, stopped publishing history books and atlas and started to invest in adult themed magazines. Grafipar became a renowned publisher of this genre, reaching the peak of 49 titles, 1.5 million copies per month and 1.5 thousand letters from readers per month. Among the contributors were journalists that were frowned upon by the military regime and left-wing intellectuals, such as the poets Paulo Leminski and Alice Ruiz. Amid the “nude art”, a small net of intellectuals, anonymously, guided the editorial, in a clear fight against obscurantism. This article explores the journalistic and intellectual resistance disguised as erotic content and the difficulty to qualify this material, which were on the sidelines of the so called alternative press. Alternativa press; erotic magazines; behavior.