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1 online resource (x, 190 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Liverpool Latin American studies ; new series, 17
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Liverpool Latin American studies ; new ser., 17.
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| Summary |
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 twentieth century, drew from European sociological and medical theories to produce a series of cultural representations based on notions of degeneration. Through a comparative analysis of three country case studies - Argentina, Uruguay and Chile - the book investigates four themes that were central to definitions of Latin American modernity at the turn of the century: race and the nation, the search for the autochthonous, education, and aesthetic values. It takes a transnational approach to show how civilisational constructs were adopted and adapted in a postcolonial context where cultural modernism foreshadowed economic modernisation. In doing this, this work sheds new light on the complex discursive negotiations through which the idea of 'Latin America' became gradually established in the region. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-183) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Argentina -- Civilization.
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Argentina. |
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Civilization. |
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Uruguay -- Civilization.
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Uruguay. |
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Chile -- Civilization.
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Chile. |
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Argentina -- History -- 1860-1910.
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History. |
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1860-1910 |
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Argentina -- History -- 1910-1943.
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1910-1943 |
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Uruguay -- History -- 1875-1904.
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1875-1904 |
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Uruguay -- History -- 1904-1973.
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1904-1973 |
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Chile -- History -- 1824-1920.
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1824-1920 |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General. |
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America. |
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1824-1973 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coletta, Michela. Decadent modernity. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, [2018] 1786941317 (OCoLC)1032356594 |
| ISBN |
9781786948816 (electronic book) |
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1786948818 (electronic book) |
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9781786941312 (print) |
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1786941317 (print) |
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