TY - BOOK AU - Schelling, Vivian TI - Through the kaleidoscope: the experience of modernity in Latin America T2 - Critical studies in Latin American and Iberian cultures SN - 1859847498 AV - F 1414 T53.2000 PY - 2000/// CY - London, New York PB - Verso KW - Latin America KW - Civilization KW - 20th century KW - América Latina - KW - Civilización - KW - Siglo XX N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; 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 enchanted public space : religious plurality and modernity in Brazil / José Jorge de Carvalho ER -