Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In this text, literary critic Silvano Santiago delves into questions of identity politics and of globalization in modern Brazilian culture. He discusses four crucial moments: the end of the nineteenth century, the decade of the twenties, the decade [...]

Silvano Santiago begins this essay with the famous statement by Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes, “We are not Europeans nor North Americans, our original culture has been eliminated: nothing is foreign to us as everything here is foreign. Our own [...]

This debate was organized by the journal Módulo, bringing together critics in different fields (visual arts, music, literature, film, etc.) from the major communications media in Brazil. As representative of the visual arts, critic Frederico Morais [...]