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.
Author(s): Nicola Miller, Stephen Hart
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 224
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modernity in Latin America......Page 8
Part I: Views from the Historical and Social Sciences......Page 26
1 Geographies of Modernity in Latin America: Uneven and Contested Development......Page 28
2 Modernity and Tradition: Shifting Boundaries, Shifting Contexts......Page 56
3 Mid-Nineteenth-Century Modernities in the Hispanic World......Page 76
4 When Was Latin America Modern? A Historian’s Response......Page 98
Part II: Views from Literary and Cultural Studies......Page 126
5 When Was Peru Modern? On Declarations of Modernity in Peru......Page 128
6 Belatedness as Critical Project: Machado de Assis and the Author as Plagiarist......Page 154
7 Cuban Cinema: A Long Journey toward the Light......Page 174
8 Culture and Communication in Inter-American Relations: The Current State of an Asymmetric Debate......Page 184
Conclusion: When Was Latin America Modern?......Page 198
List of Contributors......Page 214
B......Page 218
E......Page 219
I......Page 220
M......Page 221
R......Page 222
U......Page 223
Z......Page 224
