When Was Latin America Modern?

By: Nicola Miller (Editor), Stephen Hart (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 March 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"This collection of essays provides a very important contribution to the analysis of the discourse, practices and institutions of modernity in Latin America. Rather than agreeing on the usefulness of the analytical place of modernity, the authors - who come from various disciplines and are leading experts on different countries - disagree and debate implicitly with one another. This creates a collection that serves as a fascinating tool for learning about the ambiguous and tension-ridden connections of Latin American societies to some of the central ideas and institutions of Western modernity."

- Luis Roniger, Reynolds Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies, Wake Forest University

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Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modernity in Latin America	p. 1
Views from the Historical and Social Sciences
Geographies of Modernity in Latin America: Uneven and Contested Development	p. 21
Modernity and Tradition: Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Contexts	p. 49
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernities in the Hispanic World	p. 69
When Was Latin America Modern? A Historian's Response	p. 91
Views from Literary and Cultural Studies
When Was Peru Modern? On Declarations of Modernity in Peru	p. 121
Belatedness as Critical Project: Machado de Assis and the Author as Plagiarist	p. 147
Cuban Cinema: A Long Journey toward the Light	p. 167
Culture and Communication in Inter-Amcrican Relations: The Current State of an Asymmetric Debate	p. 177
Conclusion: When Was Latin America Modern?	p. 191
List of Contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 211
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