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9781403980007

When Was Latin America Modern?

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    9781403980007

  • ISBN10:

    1403980004

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-03-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Stemming from an interdisciplinary convention in February 2005 at the Institute for the Study of the Americas in London, the following collection of papers has a strong thematic integrity, but also illustrates the dramatic variety of approaches to the question of modernity. Latin America's experience of modernity has been the subject of much academic attention over the past two decades. This fills gaps in prior literature on the topic which has proven rich, but also--as Latin America's modernity itself is often claimed to be--fragmented.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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