Grafipar Edições: an erotic reaction to military dictatorship

Authors

  • José Carlos Fernandes Universidade Federal do Paraná
  • Agnes do Amaral Universidade Federal do Paraná

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5212/RIF.v.19.i42.0009

Abstract

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.

Author Biographies

José Carlos Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Doutor e mestre em Estudos Literários pela UFPR. Jornalista profissional. Professor do curso de Jornalismo da UFPR.

Agnes do Amaral, Universidade Federal do Paraná

Graduanda em Comunicação Social - Jornalismo pela Universidade Federal do Paraná

Published

2021-07-02

How to Cite

FERNANDES, J. C.; AMARAL, A. do. Grafipar Edições: an erotic reaction to military dictatorship. Revista Internacional de Folkcomunicação, [S. l.], v. 19, n. 42, p. 173–193, 2021. DOI: 10.5212/RIF.v.19.i42.0009. Disponível em: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/folkcom/article/view/19299. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.