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Title:

Through the kaleidoscope : the experience of modernity in Latin America / edited and introduced by Vivian Schelling ; translations by Lorraine Leu.

Publisher:

Verso,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

vi, 312 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Latin America--Civilization--20th century.

Other Authors:

Schelling, Vivian, 1952-

Contents:

Introduction : Reflections on the experience of modernity in Latin America / Vivian Schelling -- Contradictory modernities and globalisation in Latin America / Néstor García Canclini -- Brazil : the modern in the Tropics / Ruben George Oliven -- Peregrinations, visions and the city : from Canudos to Brasília, the backlands become the city and the city becomes the backlands / Nicolau Sevcenko -- The modern city : Buenos Aires, the peripheral metropolis / Beatriz Sarlo -- Popular culture, modernity and nation / Renato Ortiz -- 'A train of shadows' : early cinema and modernity in Latin America / Ana M. López -- The aesthetics of the avant-garde / Gwen Kirkpatrick -- Brazilian modernism : the canonised revolution / Beatriz Resende -- Modernity and alternative development in the Andes / Nelson Manrique -- The hesitations of the modern and the contradictions of modernity in Brazil / José de Souza Martins -- An enchantd public space : religious plurality and modernity in Brazil / José Jorge de Carvalho.

Series:

Critical studies in Latin American and Iberian cultures

ISBN:

9781859842621 (pbk.)
1859842623 (pbk.)
9781859847497 (cloth)
1859847498 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45639073

LCCN:

00054993

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)