Art as smuggling: a note on anthropophagy and politics

Abstract

The article examines the historical context and poetic procedures of Oswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagy and its relations with nationalism from São Paulo during the First Republic. It explores the relationship between the social, the subjective, and the literary, passing through the aspects of distinctive theoretical formulae that, far from being enforced to a synthesis that would be incoherent as a result, are operated as input of reflection with regard to the possibility of thinking about the relationships between esthetics and power.