Brazil’s Cannibal Modernism: From Modern Art Week to Antropofagia

Graduate / Professional

A study of Brazilian modernism in literature and the arts, centered on São Paulo’s Modern Art Week of 1922 and the Cannibal Manifesto from the perspective of major figures and works, and transatlantic exchanges with figures from the European avant-gardes. Includes analysis of Antropofagia as a postcolonial strategy. Th 1:30pm-3:25pm