TO KEEP TELLING (HI) STORIES: THE ANTHROPOPHAGIC GESTURE AND THE EXISTENTIAL MEANING OF HISTORY IN AILTON KRENAK'S WORK

In the Brazilian intellectual tradition, several authors have questioned themsel-ves about any perennial difficulty of the country concerning its history. People sometimes seek to evade or overcome this history from the fiction of a diffe-rence to be reached, and this theme gained particular attention when, in the Modernist movement, Oswald de Andrade approached this difficulty and saw in the anthropophagic aspect a powerful image to reinvent our relationship to history and with what would be particular and different in our experience. In this article, we propose to review the anthropophagic aspect related to history and explore it along with a more contemporary perspective from Ailton Krenak, when he proposes, through an understanding of history as an existential for-ce, to redo the encounter between modern Brazilian society and the traditional communities experience.