Cannibal Angels; Transatlantic Modernism and the Brazilian Avant-Garde

This book is a cultural history and interpretation of Brazilian modernism in the arts and letters. In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the Atlantic interacted to create a modern style for Brazil, helping to define Brazilian national expression into the present.

Kenneth David Jackson is Professor of Luso-Brazilian literatures and cultures at Yale University. Among his books are Machado de Assis: A Literary Life (Yale UP, 2015), Adverse Genres in Fernando Pessoa (Oxford UP, 2010), the Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story (2006), and Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet (2005).