Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modernity in Latin America; N.Miller PART I: VIEWS FROM THE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Geographies of Modernity in Latin America: Uneven and Contested Development; S.Radcliffe Modernity and Tradition: Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Contexts; P.Wade Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernities in the Hispanic World; G.Thomson Nationalism and History in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America; R.Earle When was Latin America Modern?: A Historian's Response; A.Knight PART II: VIEWS FROM LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES When was Peru Modern?: On Declarations of Modernity in Peru; W.Rowe Belatedness as Critical Project: Machado de Assis and the Author as Plagiarist; J.C.de Castro Rocha Cuban Cinema: A Long Journey Towards the Light; J.G.Espinosa Culture and Communication in Inter-American Relations: The Current State of an Asymmetric Debate; N.G.Canclini Conclusion: When was Latin America Modern?; L.Whitehead
Synopsis
Stemming from an interdisciplinary convention in 2005 at the Institute for the Studies of the Americas in London, this collection has a strong thematic integrity, but also illustrates the dramatic variety of approaches to the question of modernity. This volume fills the gaps in prior literature on Latin America's experience of modernity.