José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954)[1] was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic.

Born into a wealthy bourgeois family in São Paulo, Andrade used his money and connections to support numerous modernist artists and projects.

He sponsored the publication of several major novels of the period, produced a number of experimental plays, and supported several painters, including Tarsila do Amaral, with whom he had a long affair, and Lasar Segall.

The line is simultaneously a celebration of the Tupi, who had been at times accused of cannibalism (most notoriously by Hans Staden), and an instance of the anthropophagical rite: it eats Shakespeare.

[12][13] On the other hand, some critics argue that Antropofagia, as a movement, was too heterogeneous to extract overarching arguments from it and that often it had little to do with a post-colonial cultural politics (Jauregui 2018, 2012).