A utopia antropofágica de Oswald de Andrade: um ideal de Brasil sem roteiros

Abstract

This Final Paper proposes a study on the birth and development of Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagic thought. Considering that anthropophagy is an aesthetic project presents in some of Oswald's other works, this study is primarily focused on the Anthropophagy Manifesto, published in 1928. Thus, the purpose will be to present an analysis about twenty-four aphorisms, seeking to unravel them through critical thinking and cultural reflection that suggests the transformation of foreign culture from the swallowing process. Anthropophagy, according to the modernist writer, emerged as a protest against, thus prevailing the idea of the 'free man'. Based on the appreciation of the anthropophagous Indian, the one who feeds on the enemy to obtain his qualities, Oswald relates to his anthropophagy this devouring that would result in a cultural assimilation with the aim of strengthening all Brazilian artistic production. Through the manifesto, Oswald critically presents not only the history of resistance of the Amerindians, but also their anthropophagy as an aesthetic and literary proposal that, due to its importance, also reached the political, anthropological, cultural, sociological and philosophical fields. In the manifesto, Oswald pointed out the fight against the culture considered 'trained' because anthropophagy meant transformation, that is, 'devouring' to transform and not to copy, this being the central idea of the manifesto: assimilate the culture of the other to in order to swallow what is necessary for the construction of their own culture.