The specific literary traditions compared here-Brazilian modernism, Négritude theory and poetry, as well as Caribbean literary theory and historical discourses in French, English, and Spanish-have not been brought together in a single study before. Luís Madureira addresses issues that so many postcolonial theorists have struggled with, particularly the complx interactions and antagonisms between indigenous cultures and the imperial cultures imposed upon them and the effort to “provincialize the West.” Madureira’s book diverges from existing critical texts, however, in crucial, thought-provoking ways. Unique in its inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, Cannibal Modernities is the first postcolonial study to show how the “peripheral” replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models. With texts and contributions from Hans Staden, Jean de Lery, Michel de Montaigne, James Frazer, Oswald de Andrade, Flávio de Carvalho, Raul Bopp, Pierre Clastres, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha, Félix Guattari, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Davi Kopenawa, Tânia Stolze Lima, Paulo Tavares, Jean Tible, Giuseppe Cocco, Alexandre Nodari, Suely Rolnik, among others.
The book reflects on cannibalism as a moment of ontological collapse and negotiation, expanding the history of Antropofagia through its own writings into issues such as species thinking, technology, ontology, and visions of nature. The book delineates a cosmopolitical, rather than artistic, genealogy of Antropofagia.
This is an anthology on the brazilian aesthetic and philosophical tradition of "Antropofagia", with a particular focus on its historical and cosmopolitical relations with Amerindian thought, anthropology, and current ecological struggles in the region. Pedro Neves Marques (Berlin and Cologne Archive Books and Akademie der Kunste der Welt-Koln, 2014-15).
Introduction to the anthology "The Forest and The School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table?", ed.
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