Title: Antropofagia

Abstract: Antropofagia is one of the most influential legacies of Brazilian modernism. Its genealogy can be traced to colonial discourses on cannibalism, and it gradually took shape through nineteenth-century Indianist writing and the radical revaluation undertaken by the modernists of the 1920s. Subsequently, it expanded into poetry, theater, music, film, translation, anthropology, and digital culture, constantly renewing its functions across changing contexts. The enduring vitality of antropofagia derives from an open structure that transforms external forces into resources for self-renewal. At the same time, this extensibility also faces such risks as reverse appropriation by capital and the culture industry, conceptual overextension, and the obscuring of internal asymmetries of power.

Keywords: antropofagia, Brazilian modernism, colonial discourse, cultural hybridity

Author: Yuan Wang, Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing, China.

DOI: 10.19967/j.cnki.flc.2026.03.006