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The return of the living dead: Oswald de Andrade's 'O rei da vela'

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Abstract:
In this work, rather than presenting an image of an Oswald who is eternally avant-garde and always identical, I am interested in dwelling on the different displacements and mutations implied in his work, the passage from a 'vanguardist anthropophagous universal' to another universal, the 'communist internationalism', which began to take shape in Brazil in the 1930s.
En este trabajo me interesa, antes que entregar una imagen de Oswald eternamente vanguardista y siempre idéntico a sí mismo, detenerme en los diferentes desplazamientos y mutaciones que implica, en su obra, el pasaje de un ‘universal vanguardista antropofágico’ a otro universal, el ‘internacionalismo comunista’, que comienza a configurarse en Brasil en la década del 30.

Citation

Aguilar, Gonzalo, "The return of the living dead: Oswald de Andrade's 'O rei da vela'" (2003). BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/9zbq-n945

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  • BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature

    BRASIL/BRAZIL: A Journal of Brazilian Literature (ISSN: 2526-4885), founded in 1988, publishes scholarly articles on Brazilian literature and in Comparative Literature with a focus on Brazilian literature, as well as book reviews, interviews with writers, English-language translations of Brazilian literature …

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