Livros, editoras e oposição à ditadura

Abstract

The period of political opening in Brazil (1974-1985) was highlighted, in the field of books publishing, by the founding or revitalization of "oppositional publishers" - publishers with a unmistakable political and ideological profile in opposition to the dictatorial government. They comprised an universe that ranged from well-established publishers - as Civilização Brasileira, Brasiliense, Vozes and Paz e Terra - to others born in that same moment - Alfa-Ômega, Global, Codecri, Brasil Debates, Ciências Humanas, Kairós, Livramento, Vega, among others. Some of those publishers had very strict links with oppositional parties and groups, and could be well defined as activist / oppositional publishers; others didn't set up organic or explicit political links but, because of their profile and editorial policy, epitomized oppositional political initiatives. My hypothesis is that the founding or revitalization of "oppositional publishers" in the period on focus, particularly the ones I classify as "activists", had as its main engine the political aims that they looked for.