Raça canibal: a deglutição da eugenia pelos estômagos literários

Tainá Cavalieri Faria; Frederico Oliveira Coelho

doi:10.12957/matraga.2022.66322

Cannibal race: the swallowing of eugenics by literary stomachs

Authors

Tainá Cavalieri Faria Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8832-9825
Frederico Oliveira Coelho Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2094-7114

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.66322

Keywords:

Anthropophagy, Eugenics, Miscegenation, Racial whitening.

Abstract

This paper aims to attempt a reading of the Brazilian anthropophagy movement as a broad and diverse cultural movement in the late 1920s, one that reflects national disputes over the construction of a “Brazilian race.” Since the abolition of slavery and the intense immigration flow from Europe in the late 19th century, the value and the role of each ethnic group that would be absorbed into the demographic composition were disputed. This happened especially in the field of eugenics, which reached its peak in the 1920s. Following the analysis of texts from the Revista de Antropofagia (Anthropophagy Journal) and its expansion in the literary press, all highly heterogeneous, we were able to verify the presence of not only the eugenics debate but also its racialist lexicon, which provide models of analysis for the miscegenationist ideology in Brazil and its ties to Brazilian racism.

Author Biographies

Tainá Cavalieri Faria, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

É mestranda em Literatura Cultura e Contemporaneidade pela PUC-Rio e bacharel em Comu- nicação Social pela mesma instituição. Também é licencianda em Letras-Literatura brasileira pela UFF e atua como educadora popular na Baixada Fluminense.

Frederico Oliveira Coelho, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

É pesquisador, escritor e professor de graduação em Literatura e de Pós-Graduação em Litera- tura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade no Departamento de Letras da PUC-Rio. Formou-se e fez Mestrado em História no IFCS da UFRJ. No Doutorado, cursou Literatura, pela PUC-Rio. Pu- blicou, entre outros, os livros Jards Macalé – Eu só faço o que quero (Numa, 2020); Livro ou livro--me – os escritos babilônicos de Hélio Oiticica (EdUERJ, 2010); A Semana Sem fim – Celebrações e memória da Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922 (Casa da Palavra, 2012) e Eu, brasileiro, confesso minha culpa e meu pecado – cultura marginal no Brasil 1960/1970 (Civilização Brasileira, 2010).

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Published

2022-11-08

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Faria, T. C., & Coelho, F. O. (2022). Cannibal race: the swallowing of eugenics by literary stomachs. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 29(57), 565–578. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2022.66322

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Vol. 29 No. 57 (2022): After before 22: modernisms in a vanishing point

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