Eating the Past: Proto-Zombies in Brazilian Fiction 1900-1955

Taking Oswald de Andrade’s 1928 “Manifesto antropófago” [Cannibalist Manifesto] as a point of departure, this article analyzes how zombies in Brazilian literature from 1900 to 1955 represent a kind of cultural cannibalism, consuming bodies as a way of resisting hegemonic power, oblivion and marginal...

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Main Author: M. Elizabeth Ginway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of South Florida 2018-12-01
Series:Alambique
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/alambique/vol6/iss1/7