When was Latin America modern? /
Modernity has been a key issue for Latin Americans and Latin Americanists for decades. Did Latin America come early or late to modernity? Was modernity imposed from outside the region, or has it been reinvented from within? Is modernity monolithic or multiple? The literature on the subject is rich,...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Series: | Studies of the Americas.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : interdisciplinary approaches to modernity in Latin America / Nicola Miller
- Geographies of modernity in Latin America : uneven and contested development / Sarah A. Radcliffe
- Modernity and tradition : shifting boundaries, shifting contexts / Peter Wade
- Mid-nineteenth-century modernities in the Hispanic world / Guy Thomson
- When was Latin America modern? A historian's response / Alan Knight
- When was Peru modern? On declarations of modernity in Peru / William Rowe
- Belatedness as critical project : Machado de Assis and the author as plagiarist / João Cezar de Castro Rocha
- Cuban cinema : a long journey toward the light / Julio García Espinosa
- Culture and communication in inter-American relations : the current state of an asymmetric debate / Néstor García Canclini
- Conclusion : when was Latin America modern? / Laurence Whitehead.