Em/Entre Sérgio Vaz e Oswald de Andrade: antropofagia como postura

Abstract

The present study aims at conducting a comparative analysis between the “Manifesto Antropófago”, by Oswald de Andrade, writer of the first modernist national group, and the “Manifesto da Antropofagia Periférica”, by Sergio Vaz, member of the new Brazilian literary scene arising from the peripheries of large urban centers, known as marginal literature. The analysis will be through the idea that the manifest is outlined as a genre, a global initiative of questions, i.e., falls in various fields of activity, such as culture, society and political means contemporary to texts. This approach to literature as cultural fragment search demonstrate that both texts preserve to themselves a critical stance that seeks to destabilize positions of power to demonstrate the legitimacy of cultural events denied as representative or valid by using identities historically stigmatized in the society which they find themselves, by aiming to put cultural productions from many different backgrounds in touch, making them equal. Thus, the most diverse social and cultural elements gain similar values in the fields’ support of representation and moving discourses of power centered on the idea of identities inferiority / superiority. We still search to clarify the importance that this literary initiative acquires within the Brazilian cultural field and the consequences of the resumption of this concept for understanding the new national literary scene.