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New strategies of anthropophagy in Brazilian/Portuguese digital literature

✍ Scribed by Alckmar Luiz dos Santos


Book ID
106479970
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
389 KB
Volume
36
Category
Article
ISSN
0324-4652

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✦ Synopsis


This article intends to discuss an example of contemporary digital literary creation, based on anthropophagy as a cultural mechanism. Oswald de Andrade, one of the leaders of Brazilian modernism, published his Anthropophagic Manifesto in 1928, where he argued that ''what is not mine interests me''. In fact, translated into our contemporary culture, this Manifesto could explain some issues of Brazil's intellectual and cultural environment: the ''only what is not mine interests me'' could be complementarily read as ''what is mine does not interest me''; the anthropophagus would disdain that which is his own and ceaselessly search for the references to the Other. That attitude would be important to understand not only cultural processes, but it could also describe some strategies of contemporary digital literary creations, as Amor de Clarice, created by the Portuguese artist and intellectual Rui Torrres.''So ´me interessa o que na ˜o e ´meu. Lei do homem. Lei do antropo ´fago.'' Oswald de Andrade, Manifesto Antropo´fago «… chacun appelle barbarie, ce qui n'est pas de son usage.» Michel de Montaigne, Les Essais Common places? At times it is impossible not to return to them. The problem would be to stay restricted to them, not advancing in the comprehension of the problems that they point to, and the way in which they appear in the present time. Just like this anthropophagic vision of Brazilian culture, less and less regarded in our contemporary intellectual context, yet still utilized in other countries to characterize our artistic production.


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