This article follows de Campos’ poetics of transcreation from the 1960s to the present, with specific reference to the digestive metaphor in Brazil. The author discusses the critical discourse on Antropofagia, created by de Campos himself and seen to operate in various segments of Brazilian culture which, in different ways, have appropriated and exploited the digestive metaphor. As the author contextualizes the anthropophagous play of performance through discontinuity and difference, both in critical discourse and in translation metalanguage, two different moments of enunciation of subaltern subjectivities are considered: first in the 1920s with Oswald de Andrade and again from the 1960s to the early 1980s.