Malditos vs marginais?

Abstract

In the newspaper “O Beijo” (“The Kiss” -- Rio de Janeiro, 1977), Ana Cristina Cesar published a text titled “Malditos marginais hereges” (Damned heretical marginals.) In it, the poet reacted to a collection of stories organized by João Antonio, released in that same year under the title “Damned writers.” Our proposition is to examine the terms of that argument, taking into account the context (dictatorship, marginal poetry...), and to rethink the categories of damned and/or marginal, applied to the scope of culture and literature.