Antropofagia, Calibanism, and the Post-Romero Zombie: Cannibal Resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Published in: Alambique (Tampa) Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 1 - 20
• Main Author: Dalton, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of South Florida 01.12.2018
• Subjects: antropofagia; caliban; Junot Díaz; Max Brooks; Pedro Valencia; post-Romero zombie; postcolonialism; zombie; zombie theory

This study uses zombie theory to flesh out common themes between Oswald de Andrade’s The Cannibalist Manifesto and Roberto Fernández Retamar’s Calibán. While both of these canonical Latin Americanist thinkers theorized literary and cultural cannibalism as a resistant act that could challenge the heg...