When was Latin America modern? / edited by Nicola Miller and Stephen Hart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Nicola.

Hart, Stephen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--Civilization--Congresses.

Latin America.

Civilization.

Civilization, Modern--Congresses.

Civilization, Modern.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 217 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

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, but--like Latin American modernity itself is often said to be--it is also fragmented, supplying contradictory answers to all these crucial questions. "When Was ""Latin America"" Modern"? is the first work to bring scholars from history, social science and cultural studies together in a fascinating series of debates about what it has meant to be modern in Latin America.

Contents:

Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modernity in Latin America / Nicola Miller 1

Part I Views from the Historical and Social Sciences

1 Geographies of Modernity in Latin America: Uneven and Contested Development / Sarah A. Radcliffe 21

2 Modernity and Tradition: Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Contexts / Peter Wade 49

3 Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernities in the Hispanic World / Guy Thomson 69

4 When Was Latin America Modern? A Historian's Response / Alan Knight 91

Part II Views from Literary and Cultural Studies

5 When Was Peru Modern? On Declarations of Modernity in Peru / William Rowe 121

6 Belatedness as Critical Project: Machado de Assis and the Author as Plagiarist / Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha 147

7 Cuban Cinema: A Long Journey toward the Light / Julio Garcia Espinosa 167

8 Culture and Communication in Inter-Amcrican Relations: The Current State of an Asymmetric Debate / Nestor Garcia Canclini 177

Conclusion: When Was Latin America Modern? / Laurence Whitehead 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403980004

9781403980007

OCLC:

71241993

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