ABSTRACT
I study some Oswaldian parodies of certain notions, formulated by Graça Aranha, when he considered, in a racialist and pessimistic way, that the incipient metaphysical imagination of the primitive national peoples was the reason for the paralysis of the country. As a background, I highlight in the representations of the national culture, of Graça Aranha, the impregnation of a lasting racialist pessimism. I consider these parodies, particularly, at two different moments: in anthropophagic radicalization, against the dominance of racialist and metaphysical discourses; and frustrated, he manifested himself in O rei da vela, regarding conservative modernization.
Keywords:
Oswald de Andrade; Graça Aranha; parodies of racism and metaphysical pessimism; anthropophagy; O rei da vela