Light artillery: thinking about literature in Argentine and Brazilian magazines amidst the chaos of reality

Abstract

The objective of this study is to highlight the proximity between Brazilian and Argentine magazines from the dictatorial period, identifying aspects that can establish a link between them based on their morphological community of periodical publications. Would there be a common identity supported above all by the context, considering that both countries went through authoritarian regimes from the 1960s to the 1980s? In search of answers, we selected two journals for the study: the Brazilian Inéditos. Revista bimestral de cultura y prensa (1976‒1978) and the Argentine Posta bimestral de arte y cultura and Nudos en la cultura argentina ([1992]1977‒1985), considering the last two as an unit. We chose to focus on lesser-known and less studied journals, both with few published issues. Posta and Nudos, for example, are rarely mentioned in research papers, and the same can be said of Inéditos. The option for non-canonical publications leads to a more detailed analysis, which seeks to account for its entirety. To do so, we use the proposals of Crespo (2011) and Pita and Grillo (2015) for the study of journals.