"Proíbo a publicação e circulação..." - censura a livros na ditadura militar

Abstract

Under the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985), around 140 books by Brazilian writers were officially vetoed by the State. This article presents some of the results of a project that involved drawing up a systematic list of those works that were censored, so as to form an overview of the military government's approaches to censorship in relation to the books, particularly those by Brazilian writers, and with emphasis on the period after 1970. In addition to using bibliographic sources, we also looked at the archives of rulings by the Department for Public Entertainment Censorship (DCDP), part of the Ministry of Justice, which took over the censorship of books and magazines from 1970. The present article is a modified version of extracts from the book Repressão e resistência: censura a livros na ditadura militar [Repression and resistance: book censorship under the military dictatorship], published in 2011 by Edusp with support from Fapesp.