Through the kaleidoscope
Subtitle: the experience of modernity in Latin America
By: edited and introduced by Vivian Schelling ; translations by Lorraine Leu.
Contributors: Schelling, Vivian, 1952-
Series: Critical studies in Latin American and Iberian cultures
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Latin America -- Civilization -- 20th century
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Reflections on the experience of modernity in Latin America / Vivian Schelling; title: Contradictory modernities and globalisation in Latin America / Néstor García Canclini; title: Brazil : the modern in the Tropics / Ruben George Oliven; title: Peregrinations, visions and the city : from Canudos to Brasília, the backlands become the city and the city becomes the backlands / Nicolau Sevcenko; title: The modern city : Buenos Aires, the peripheral metropolis / Beatriz Sarlo; title: Popular culture, modernity and nation / Renato Ortiz; title: 'A train of shadows' : early cinema and modernity in Latin America / Ana M. López; title: The aesthetics of the avant-garde / Gwen Kirkpatrick; title: Brazilian modernism : the canonised revolution / Beatriz Resende; title: Modernity and alternative development in the Andes / Nelson Manrique; title: The hesitations of the modern and the contradictions of modernity in Brazil / José de Souza Martins; title: An enchantd public space : religious plurality and modernity in Brazil / José Jorge de Carvalho.