Issue #134 We Too Were Modern, Part II: The Tropical Ghost Is a Cannibal

We Too Were Modern, Part II: The Tropical Ghost Is a Cannibal

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Ismael Nery, Namorados, circa 1927. License: Public Domain.

Issue #134
March 2023










Notes
1

Marcel Mauss, Sociologia e Antropologia (1950) (Cosac Naify, 2008), 239. All translations from Portuguese are by the author.

2

Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Esaú e Jacó (J. Aguilar, 1973), 79.

3

Monteiro Lobato, “Paranóia ou Mistificação?” .

4

Oswald De Andrade, “Manifesto Da Poesia Pau Brasil” (1924), Buala, 2018 .

5

Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques (1955), trans. John Russell (Hutchinson & Co., 1961), 397.

6

Michel de Montaigne, “Of Cannibals” .

7

Jacques Derrida, “Hospitality,” in Acts of Religion, ed. Gil Anidjar (Routledge, 2002), 359.

8

Montaigne, “Of Cannibals.”

9

Walter Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osbourne (Verso, 1985), 176.

10

Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia,” in Critical Theory and Society: A Reader (Routledge, 1990).

11

André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane (University of Michigan Press, 2012), 3.

12

Benjamin, “Surrealism.”

13

Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, 27–28, 18.

14

Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, 35.

15

Cunhambebinho, “Péret,” Revista de Antropofagia 1, no. 2 (1929).

16

Oswald de Andrade, Manifesto Antropofago e Outros Textos (Penguin, 2017).

17

Andrade, Manifesto Antropofago e Outros Textos.

18

Andrade, Manifesto Antropofago e Outros Textos.

19

Quoted in Andrade, Manifesto Antropofago e Outros Textos, 36.

20

Plínio Salgado, “Manifesto de Outubro de 1932” .

21

Salgado, “Manifesto de Outubro de 1932.”

22

Salgado, “Manifesto de Outubro de 1932.”

23

Mário de Andrade, Aspectos da Literatura Brasileira (Livraria Martins Editora, 1972), 253.

24

De Andrade, Aspectos da Literatura Brasileira, 252.

25

Pau de arara (macaw’s perch) is a torture technique in which the victim is tied up and forced to hang from a pole by their bent legs. The technique was widely used by during Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–85).