Nicola Miller is Reader in Latin American History at University College London. Her previous books include Soviet Relations with Latin America, 1959-1987 (1989) and In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America (1999). She is currently working on a history of intellectuals and modernity in Latin America.
Stephen Hart was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, and is Professor of Hispanic Studies at University College London, where he teaches courses on Latin American literature and film. He has published A Companion to Spanish American Literature (1999), A Companion to Latin American Film (2004) and co-edited Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies (2003). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and has been awarded the Orden al Mérito by the Peruvian government for his work on César Vallejo.
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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