Oswald(ing) : antropofagia, culturas e fronteiras

Abstract

By considering an approach which relates postcolonial studies and translation theories, this study questions the use of linguistic loans and foreignisms in Oswald de Andrade s poetic productions as translation acts and anti/postcolonial critique. The postcolonial categories presented by researchers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak namely, the rupture of frontiers, difference as an enunciative category and temporality in the in-between space and questions on translation metaphors and untranslatability, in dialogue with the rich critique produced on Oswald de Andrade, stimulate the careful analysis of anthropophagy in the literary texts taken as our corpus: O Manifesto Antropófago (2011) and Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar (2004). The result of the present research stresses the need for considering, within our current postcolonial debates, the anticipation of this anthropophagic reasoning, thus revealing a better understanding of important postcolonial aspects in Brazil.