It appeared, principally in Rio de Janeiro, immediately after Tropicália during the early 1970s,[1] in opposition to academic restrictions and against the censorship imposed by the Brazil's military dictatorship from 1964.
The "marginal" movement has interested scholars more as a socio-cultural phenomenon than as an aesthetic project per se.
Some important names in this period were Torquato Neto, Cacaso, Ana Cristina Cesar, Waly Salomão, filmmaker Glauber Rocha, Paulo Leminski, songwriter Caetano Veloso, artist Lygia Clark and artist Hélio Oiticica.
[3] In 1975, a book titled 26 Poetas Hoje (26 Poets Today) was published, edited by Heloísa Buarque de Hollanda.
The poets of the "Mimeograph Generation" included in this collection were: This Brazilian arts article is a stub.