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Title (eng)
Cultural Anthropophagy
On Monsters, Cannibals, and the Ingestion of the Other as Cultural Strategy from Brazil
Author
Lukas Frank
Advisor
Gudrun Ratzinger
Advisor
Nanna Heidenreich
Description (eng)
The history of Latin America has been inextricably linked to the figure of the cannibal since early colonization. It quickly became an icon and marker for the Other—the barbaric, the monster—projected onto the native population. The Manifesto Antropófago (1928) and the subsequent Movimento Antropofágico announced by it, reappropriated the figure of the cannibal as a productive cultural force and metaphor for processes of transculturation and national identification. This research engages with the concept of anthropophagy proposed by the Brazilian Modernists and asks what it aims for, what strategies it mobilizes, and how it challenges the Self/Other and Center/Periphery binaries. "Braszilcore" The multilingual desktop movie “Braszilcore”, which I co-created with Anna Marie Aquino Lutz, extends my research further. In order to think through cultural identification from the perspective of the second-generation half-Brazilian art student Duda, the fictional movie mobilizes anthropophagic strategies. In her final university project, Duda seeks to engage with questions of her transcultural upbringing and identification—particularly the difficulties of conforming to one or the other and being perceived as such both within and outside academic institutions. The performativity of cultural identification emerges as the central concern, intensified through the appropriation of digital formats such as Instagram Reels and Internet research that draws on both historical and contemporary pop-cultural content.
Keywords (eng)
AnthropophagyCannibalismArt TheoryArt HistoryLatin AmericaBrazilMonster Theory
Type (eng)
Bachelor thesis
Language
[eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.bibliothek.uni-ak.ac.at/o:74484
Study plan
Cross-Disciplinary Strategies (Bachelor)
Duration
18 minutes 50 seconds
License
All rights reserved