Decadent Modernity
Decadent Modernity How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? Through a comparative analysis of three country case studies - Argentina, Uruguay and Chile - the book investigates…
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Decadent Modernity
How did Latin Americans represent their own countries as modern? 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. 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.
It takes a transnational approach to show how civilisational constructs were adopted and adapted in a postcolonial context where
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