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Oswald de Andrade
Andrade in 1920
Andrade in 1920
BornJosé Oswald de Souza Andrade
(1890-01-11)January 11, 1890
São Paulo, Brazil
DiedOctober 22, 1954(1954-10-22) (aged 64)
São Paulo, Brazil
Occupationpoet and polemicist
Literary movementFounder of Brazilian modernism; member of the Group of Five
Notable works
  • Manifesto Pau-Brasil (1924)
  • Pau-brasil (poems, 1925)
  • Estrela de absinto (1927)
  • Manifesto Antropófago (1928)
  • Meu Testamento (1944)
  • A Arcádia e a Inconfidência (1945)
  • A Crise da Filosofia Messiânica (1950)
  • Um Aspecto Antropofágico da Cultura Brasileira: O Homem Cordial (1950)
  • A Marcha das Utopias (1953)

José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954)[1] was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo.[2]

Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna).

Biography

Born into a wealthy bourgeois family in São Paulo, Andrade used his money and connections to support numerous modernist artists and projects. He sponsored the publication of several major novels of the period, produced a number of experimental plays, and supported several painters, including Tarsila do Amaral, with whom he had a long affair, and Lasar Segall.

Andrade joined the Communist Party in 1931, but left it, disillusioned, in 1945.[3] He remained controversial for his radical political views and his often belligerent outspokenness. His role in the modernist art community was made somewhat awkward by his feud with Mário de Andrade, which lasted from 1929 (after Oswald de Andrade published a pseudonymous essay mocking Mário for effeminacy) until Mário de Andrade's untimely death in 1945.

Manifesto Antropófago

Andrade is particularly important for his Manifesto Antropófago (Anthropophagist Manifesto), published in 1928. Its argument is that colonized countries, such as Brazil, should ingest the culture of the colonizer and digest it in its own way. The text is explicitly inspired by Michel de Montaigne, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and André Breton, and is composed through a procedure of "deglutition" of some of the most renowned manifestos of the Western culture, such as the Manifesto of the Communist Party and the Surrealist Manifesto.[4] Andrade distinguishes Anthropophagy from cannibalism (low anthropophagy) on the grounds that the former is a ritualistic practice to be found among indigenous peoples in Brazil;[5] in this ritual sense, Anthropophagy functions as a rite of incorporation of the world-view of the ingested enemy.[6]

By turning Anthropophagy into the motto of a manifesto, Andrade operates an inversion through which he affirms as the leitmotiv of a cultural movement precisely those practices based on which several indigenous peoples were considered as barbarians deprived of culture.[7] Anthropophagy becomes thus a way for the former colony to assert itself against European postcolonial cultural domination.[8] The manifesto's iconic line is "Tupi or not Tupi: that is the question." The line is simultaneously a celebration of the Tupi, who had been at times accused of cannibalism (most notoriously by Hans Staden), and an instance of the anthropophagical rite: it eats Shakespeare. Antropofagia, as a movement, has a significant impact in multiple domains of Brazilian culture, such as theater (Teatro Oficina),[9] music (Tropicalismo)[10] and cinema (Cinema Novo).[11] As a consequence, some authors such as Augusto de Campos and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro consider it as Brazil's most radical artistic movement and as the only "original philosophy" produced in the country.[12][13] On the other hand, some critics argue that Antropofagia, as a movement, was too heterogeneous to extract overarching arguments from it and that often it had little to do with a post-colonial cultural politics (Jauregui 2018, 2012).

Selected works

Sources

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References

  1. ^ "Oswald de Andrade". educacao.uol.com.br (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  2. ^ "Oswald de Andrade: Biography and Poems | Brazilian Poetry". Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  3. ^ "Oswald de Andrade". Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica, inc. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  4. ^ Azevedo, Beatriz (2016). Antropofagia - Palimpsesto Selvagem. São Paulo: Cosac Naify. pp. 103–104. ISBN 9788550402994.
  5. ^ Andrade, Oswald de (1978). Obras Completas de Oswald de Andrade - Do Pau-Brasil à Antropofagia e às Utopias. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira. p. 77.
  6. ^ Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (1992). From the Enemy's Point of View – Humanity and Divinity in Amazonian Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226858029.
  7. ^ Garcia, Luis Fellipe. "Oswald de Andrade / Anthropophagy". ODIP: Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy. Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (ed.). Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  8. ^ Garcia, Luis Fellipe (2020). "Only Anthropophagy unites us - Oswald de Andrade's Decolonial Project". Cultural Studies. 34 (1): 122–142. doi:10.1080/09502386.2018.1551412. S2CID 150336023.
  9. ^ Corrêa, José Celso Martinez (1998). Primeiro Ato: cadernos, depoimentos, entrevistas (1958-1974). São Paulo: Editora 34. pp. 85–94. ISBN 8573260882.
  10. ^ Veloso, Caetano (2017). Verdade Tropical. Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras. pp. 255–274. ISBN 9788535929898.
  11. ^ Johnson, Randal; Stam, Robert (1995). Brazilian Cinema. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 178–190. ISBN 9780231102674.
  12. ^ Campos, Augusto de (2015). Poesia, Antipoesia, Antropofagia & Cia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. pp. 153–154. ISBN 9788535926460.
  13. ^ Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo (2016). "Que temos nós com isso? - prefácio a Antropofagia - Palimpsesto Selvagem de Beatriz Azevedo". In Azevedo, Beatriz (ed.). Antropofagia – Palimpsesto Selvagem. Cosac Naify. pp. 11–19. ISBN 9788540509955.

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