Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five (Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia)
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He participated in the Week of Modern Art (Semana de Arte Moderna). Andrade is very important too for his manifesto of critical Brazilian nationalism, Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal Manifesto), published in 1928. Its argument is that Brazil's history of "cannibalizing" other cultures is its greatest strength, while playing on the modernists' primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite. Cannibalism becomes a way for Brazil to assert itself against European postcolonial cultural domination.
Literature
- Books by Andrade
- Manifesto Pau-Brasil, 1924
- Pau-brasil (poems), 1925
- Estrela de absinto, 1927
- Manifesto Antropófago, 1928, 1990
- 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
- Books about Andrade
- Cristina Fonseca (ed.), O pensamento vivo de Oswald de Andrade, 1987 (Spanish)
