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Fernando Ribeiro de Mello (1941\u20131992) became known as a \u201c(...) \u2018damned\u2019 mediator and publisher of forbidden texts\u201d as reported by Marques (Editor Contra: Fernando Ribeiro de Mello e a Afrodite, Montag, 2015: 49). Exhibiting off an exuberant personality, \u201c(...) he was able to create and develop a\u00a0\n                    <jats:italic>persona<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u00a0and a\n                    <jats:italic>sui generis<\/jats:italic>\n                    reputation, characterized by a taste for provocation and making a scene\u201d as reported by Marques (Editor Contra: Fernando Ribeiro de Mello e a Afrodite, Montag, 2015: p. 30) which earned him eight banned titles (five of which were banned in the very first year of his publishing house), in addition to another subject to substantial limitations. In 1965, Afrodite, Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Fernando Ribeiro de Mello, with its deliberately libidinous name, made its debut with the title\u00a0\n                    <jats:italic>Kama Sutra: Manual do Erotismo Hind\u00fa<\/jats:italic>\n                    [Kama Sutra: Handbook of Huindu Eroticism]. Afrodite\u2019s most fertile period was between 1968 and 1974. It was precisely in December 1968 that the \u201cCabra-Cega\u201d series began. It was coordinated by Maria Alberta Men\u00e9res (1930\u20132019) and comprised a total of eleven volumes, which will be analysed in this study. We will highlight the main verbal-iconic singularities of a remarkable textual\u00a0\n                    <jats:italic>corpus<\/jats:italic>\n                    , carefully illustrated, sometimes by emerging artists, and in synergetic combination with literary texts written by important writers for children, such as M\u00e1rio Castrim (1920\u20132002), Ricardo Alberty (1919\u20131992), Alice Gomes (1910\u20131983), and Ant\u00f3nio Torrado (1939\u20132021), among others.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1007\/s10583-025-09661-8","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]],"date-time":"2026-01-13T09:43:30Z","timestamp":1768297410000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Editorial originality and inventiveness in a time of dictatorship: the \u201cCabra-Cega\u201d series (1968\u20131973) by Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Afrodite"],"prefix":"10.1007","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7463-8010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Diana Maria","family":"Martins","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0041-728X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sara Reis","family":"da Silva","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"9661_CR1","unstructured":"Alberty, Ricardo. 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