Ramos, Julio. Divergent Modernities: Culture and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Trans. John D Blanco. Durham, NC: Duke University Pres 2001 xlvi + 328 pp

Divergent Modernities is the translation into English of Julio Ramos's groundbreaking Desencuentro de la modernidad en America Latina, last published in 1989 This is a timely and valuable translation of a contortion that responded to a fundamental ne in the research of Latin American literature and, in in like manner doing, both opened fruitful territory and anticipated vital literary questions. While not appropriate for the undergraduate classroom, this volume is an essential source for any scholar pursuing a greater understanding of Latin American cultural paradigms. Specialists of subaltern and