Lukas Frank

The cannibal, this monster. 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 thesis engages with the concept of anthropophagy proposed by the Brazilian Modernists and asks what it entails and how it challenges the Self/Other binary. Ingestion. The Other in the Self, the Self in the Other. Devouring. The multilingual desktop movie Braszilcore, which I co-created with Anna Marie Aquino Lutz, mobilizes anthropophagic strategies in order to think through cultural identification from the perspective of the second-generation half-Brazilian art student Duda.