A antropofagia literária de Caetano Veloso: uma devoração da literatura brasileira.

Abstract

Through a bibliographical review this research study proposes a reinterpretation of Oswaldian anthropophagy regarded as a theory of appropriation. Considering that in an initial moment Oswald de Andrade’s trend advocated the nationalizing digestion of foreign cultures, the Anthropophagy metaphor has been utilized to the creative catalysis of information produced by the other. This idea of Oswaldian anthropophagy allows us to assume Brazilianness itself as a kind of food for the anthropophagic artist. In this study, the Brazilianness to be eaten up is depicted by our literature and its possibilities throughout the passing of time. As a study object, we have analyzed Caetano Veloso’s works which are said to be anthropophagic since they own aesthetic features from different literary schools. In order to engender an objective reading, the periodization adopted to describe the history of Brazilian literature covers an interval from Baroque to Concretism, disregarding Premodernism due to the lack of conceptual precision. Furthermore, it is initially defended that folksong affords typical characteristics of poetry which may be analyzed in light of literary criticism. Thus, the chosen songs for this corpus will be analyzed as texts, evidencing aspects such as, rhythm, meter, image, grammar, syntax and so forth. However, this research should not be seen as structural one. It is an initial reading to achieve a greater interpretation. Caetano Veloso himself utilizes Brazilian literature, assimilating the productive aspects in order to create a new object in an authentic way that is a multi-meaningful collection songbook whose aesthetic elements summarize the national art as a whole.