Decadent Modernity ：Civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920

Publication subTitle ：Civilization and 'Latinidad' in Spanish America, 1880-1920

Author： Coletta   Michela  

Publisher： Liverpool University Press‎

Publication year： 2018

E-ISBN: 9781786948816

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781786941312

Subject： K7 Americas History

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Description

This strikingly original book analyses how intellectuals in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay explored the concept of degeneration as inherent within their emerging modern nations. In this interpretation, the Latinity of Latin America is seen not as the wellspring of civilisation but as a source of over refined decadence. Thus there is a paradox at the heart of their nations whose development was based on widespread immigration from southern Europe: that progress and modernisation were inextricably bound up with Latin decadence and degeneration. Ways out of this dilemma were found by promoting different forms of regeneration. Based on a vast range of primary and secondary sources, theoretically informed, elegantly structured and fluently written, this comparative study offers a fresh and very substantial contribution to our understanding of the processes of modernity and modernisation in Latin America. John King, University of Warwick

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Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Raza latina: immigration and decadence at the fin de siècle

Introduction: race and nation in the Southern Cone

Uruguay: antieuropeismo and tradition

Immigration and civilization in Argentina

Raza latina and raza chilena

Conclusion

2. Mythologizing the internal Other: rural tradition as antidote to modern civilization

Introduction: literary criollismos and national culture

Argentina and Uruguay: la raza vencida

The gaucho oriental: Tratado de la imbecilidad del pais

Chile: geografia humanizada

Conclusion

3. National regeneration and the education of the Latin American elites

Introduction: education vis-à-vis racial and cultural determinism

Krausismo and the Escuela Nueva: two models of education

Intellectual education versus practical education

National language and education in the River Plate

Conclusion

4. Against the poetics of decadence: Latin America and the aesthetics of regeneration

Introduction: the sociology of art in the Southern Cone

José Enrique Rodó and Rubén Darío

Ariel and aesthetic education

Arielismo and the politics of aesthetics

Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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