From adaptation to transconstruction: anthropophagy as translocal methodology

Abstract

In this paper, I propose the concept of Cultural Anthropophagy (Andrade, 2011) - originally a practice of Brazilian indigenous tribes and later incorporated by the modernist literary thought - as a theoretical-procedural framework, a reading horizon, for the understanding of the dialogical relationship between different media, texts and cultures. Indeed, I intent to rethink the dialogue between different medias as a violent process of Transcultural devouring (Amorim, 2016) and, consequently, to propose the very idea of adaptation as a practice of Transconstruction. In order to do so, this paper will be underpinned by a theoretical framework that consists of dialogical and intertextual Theories of Adaptation and the Brazilian modernist concept of Cultural Anthropophagy.