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)
In 1928 he published Manifesto Antropófago [Cannibal Manifesto]. 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
- 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
- Obras completas:Os condenandos, vol. 1, 1974
- Obras completas: Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar e Serafim Ponte Grande, vol. 2, 1976
- Obras Completas: Marco Zero I, A Revolução Melancólica, vol. 3, 1978
- Obras Completas: Marco Zero II, Chão, vol. 4, 1971
- Obras Completas: Ponta de Lança, vol. 5, 1971
- Obras Completas: Do Pau-Brasil à Antropofagia e às Utopias, vol. 6, 1978
- Obras Completas: Poesias Reunidas, vol. 7, 1974
- Obras Completas: Teatro, vol. 8, 1973
- Obras Completas: Um Homem Sem Profissão, vol. 9, 1976
- Obras Completas: Telefonema, vol. 10, 1976
- On Andrade
- Cristina Fonseca (ed.), O pensamento vivo de Oswald de Andrade, 1987 (Spanish)
