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Decadent modernity : civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920 /

How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? By treating modernity as a ubiquitous category in which ideas of progress and decadence are far from being mutually exclusive, this book explores how different groups of intellectuals, between the late nineteenth and the early twentiet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coletta, Michela (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Colección:Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Raza latina: immigration and decadence at the fin de siècle
  • Mythologizing the internal Other: rural tradition as antidote to modern civilization
  • National regeneration and the education of the Latin American elites
  • Against the poetics of decadence: Latin America and the aesthetics of regeneration.