Background
Silviano Santiago was born on September 29, 1936, in Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. At the age of ten, he moved to Belo Horizonte.
2015
Silviano Santiago with the Prêmio Oceanos
Silviano Santiago
Silviano Santiago
Silviano Santiago
Av. Pres. Antônio Carlos, 6627 - Pampulha, Belo Horizonte - MG, 31270-901, Brazil
Silviano Santiago studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He got a Bachelor of Arts.
Bloco C - R. São Francisco Xavier, 524 - Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20943-000, Brazil
Silviano Santiago studied at Rio de Janeiro State University.
75005 Paris, France
Silviano Santiago studied at the University of Paris. He got a Doctor of the University.
(Set in the Brazilian exile community in New York City in ...)
Set in the Brazilian exile community in New York City in the late 1960s, this noir novel is an electrifying adventure story of a young gay Brazilian man trying to make a go of it in New York.
https://www.amazon.com/Stella-Manhattan-Silviano-Santiago/dp/0822314983
1985
(Santiago's work creates a theoretical field that transcen...)
Santiago's work creates a theoretical field that transcends both the study of specific national literature and the traditional perspectives of comparative literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Space-Between-American-Post-Contemporary-Interventions/dp/082232749X
2001
Silviano Santiago was born on September 29, 1936, in Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. At the age of ten, he moved to Belo Horizonte.
Silviano Santiago studied at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1959. He also received a Diploma of advanced study at the Rio de Janeiro State University in 1961 and a Doctor of the University at the University of Paris in 1968.
Silviano Santiago worked for several years at universities in the United States. He taught at the University of New Mexico from 1962 to 1964, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Texas. He is a professor of Brazilian literature at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil. In 1954, he also for a film magazine and helped to idealize and publish the magazine Complemento. As a writer, best known to North American readers for Stella Manhattan, a novel, Santiago has produced a diverse body of work that includes poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays.
Santiago illustrates his critical ideas in his book Em liberdade, which he describes as an essay-novel. The book is structured as a fictional continuation of Graciliano Ramos's acclaimed work, Memorias do carcere, which purports to be Ramos's account of his imprisonment by the regime of Getulio Vargas in 1936. Santiago presents himself as the editor of Ramos's unpublished manuscript and provides commentary and notes that pose questions regarding literature's use of the past.
Stella Manhattan established Santiago's fame in the United States. The novel tells the story of a gay tranny from Brazil whose father, through his old friend Colonel Valdevinos Vianna, gets him a job in the Brazilian consulate in New York City. Eduardo/Stella develops a strong bond with Vianna, who appears to be a respectable and charming married man. Vianna, however, has military links to the Brazilian junta and is a known torturer. He also enjoys a secret life within New York's sadomasochistic club scene. When a Brazilian communist group recruits Eduardo to trap Vianna, the dangers intensify, and Eduardo eventually finds himself suspected by both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Vianna.
The novel Uma história de família examines the dynamics of a dysfunctional family. The story centers on Uncle Mario, a hapless black sheep. He serves as the allegorical personification of the general misery that surrounds the clan. Santiago uses a low-keyed approach in this novel and combines autobiographical elements with bits of memoir, essays, and suspenseful suggestions of the surreal. He creates a world lacking in love, characterized by a prevailing sadomasochistic and deterministic milieu.
The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture includes pieces written over a thirty-year period. It represents the first English translation of some of Santiago's most important essays on critical theory. These explore such notions as original and copy, dominant and dominated cultures and cultural dependency.
(Set in the Brazilian exile community in New York City in ...)
1985(Santiago's work creates a theoretical field that transcen...)
2001Silviano Santiago rejected the prevalent Brazilian literary styles of the 1980s, which were based on modernism. He challenged the conventions of modernism by re-evaluating the canon of respected authors. He argued that the use of famous literary forms, which modernist critics hitherto dismissed, was a valuable stylistic response to the threats present writers face from the mass media. Santiago introduced the post-structural theory to Brazil and made seminal contributions to postcolonial theory.