Decolonizing Literature: The Absence of Afro-Brazilians in the Anthropophagic Movement

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https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3960

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Revista de Antropofagia, decolonizing Brazilian literature, Afro-Brazilians, sociology of absences, postcolonial studies, tropics

Abstract

This article analyzes how the Movimento Antropofágico (Anthropophagic Movement), an avant-garde cultural manifestation was conceived by São Paulo's ruling elite and aimed to create a national identity. Inspired by the Indigenous anthropophagic ritual, in which the flesh of the enemy was consumed to acquire their skills, the movement proposed the incorporation and transformation of foreign European culture into national culture. This study is based on the analysis of the Manifesto Antropofágico (the Anthropophagic Manifesto) and the texts published later in the Revista de Antropofagia between May 1928 and February 1929. To theoretically support this work, I use the concepts of postcolonial authors such as Frantz Fanon and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The objective of the study is to question how the absence of Afro-Brazilians happened and to deconstruct the myth of the attempt to build a Brazilian national culture.

Author Biography

Paola Karyne Azevedo Jochimsen, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Paola Karyne Azevedo Jochimsen is a Brazilian PhD student at the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Coimbra, Portugal where she works on Brazilian peripheral literature and Derrida's theory of deconstruction. She received her master’s degree in literatures and Romance Languages with a focus on Latin America and Brazil from the University of Freiburg (2020), Germany. She received her BA in French Language and Literature from the State University of Ceará (2013), Brazil. Her research interests also include post/decolonial studies, Brazilian Literature, Latin American studies, Francophone studies and women's writing, especially the French-speaking Swiss authors. I write from the perspective of a peripheral white woman from Northeast Brazil. Although I have distant Portuguese and Indigenous roots, my strongest identification is with the culture and reality of the Brazilian Northeast.

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2023-07-23

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Azevedo Jochimsen, P. K. (2023). Decolonizing Literature: The Absence of Afro-Brazilians in the Anthropophagic Movement. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 22(2), 104–124. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.22.2.2023.3960

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2023): Decoloniality and Tropicality: Part Two

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