Indigestão colonial em alguns poemas da Revista de Antropofagia

Abstract

Part of the Brazilian modernist project was the affirmation of an authentic national literature in the worldwide spatiality of modernity, established as an ensemble of nation-States. However, the writing of the modern text postulated that which Denise Ferreira da Silva (2007) calls globality, that is, the attribution of transparency to the European subject and of affectability to their racial others who inhabited other spaces. This separation expressed itself as a peculiar form of anxiety of influence in many modernist literary texts which sought to establish their authenticity in face of a western literary tradition which, in turn, did not recognize them. In this article, I propose a reading of different manifestations of this anxiety of influence and separation in a few famous modernist poems originally published in the Revista de Antropofagia by Murilo Mendes, Mário de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Oswald de Andrade.