Antropofagia: Emblematics and the Brazilian Avant-Garde (1920-30s)

By Aarnoud Rommens

In Antropofagia, Aarnoud Rommens shows how this Brazilian avant-garde movement (1920-30s) deconstructed early tendencies in the European vanguard. Through imaginative re-readings, the author reinterprets Antropofagia's central texts and images as elements within an ever-changing, neo-baroque memory palace. Not only does the movement subvert established conceptions of the pre- and postcolonial; it is also a counter-colonial critique of verbal and visual literacy. To do justice to the dynamic between visibility and legibility, Rommens develops the inventive methodology of 'emblematics'. The book's implications are wide-ranging, prompting a revaluation of the avant-garde as a transmedial tactic for disrupting our reading and viewing habits.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004339078
• ISBN13: 9789004339071
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Brill