The 1922 São Paulo Week of Modern Art is celebrated as a turning point for Brazilian literature and arts. However, in the last decades, the rise of post/decolonial, gender and critical race studies posed new questionings and demanded new readings of the 1920's Modernismo. This symposium explores recent questions about Modernismo as an artistic and literary paradigm, and its influence on Brazilian culture and national identity. Participations are divided into three sections: critical and historiographic review of Modernismo based on current theoretical debates; other modernisms outside of São Paulo; and contemporary artistic echoes and re-readings of modernismo. Highlighting the tensions and possibilities, the contributors expose the entanglement of colonial, racial, and capital violence and its ongoing influence on the structures of Brazilian social and cultural life.