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Product Description: Silviano Santiago has been a pioneer in the development of concepts crucial to the discourse of contemporary critical and cultural theory, especially postcolonial theory. The notions of “hybridity” and “the space in-between” have been so completely absorbed into current theory that few scholars even realize these terms began with Santiago...read more

Eduardo, a young gay Brazilian from a prominent family, is shipped off to New York in 1969 to work in the consulate, where he is taken under the wing of Colonel Vianna, the military attache, an old friend of his family, who is also gay, and a gay Cuban neighbor