Our goal is to establish a relationship between Oswald de Andrade's anthropophagy and Michel Foucault's otherness. These two experiences show that literature has a secret relationship with what is absolutely other. Andrade assumes that cannibalism has an ambivalent sense in its relationship with the other: rivalry and identification. According to Foucault, the experience of outside (dehors), limiting the experience that literature witnesses, is another way of finding a place for "hosting" the other, a trend that has been excluded by Western reasoning.
Cannibalism; literature; dehors; another