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Article Excerpt
Trans. John D. Blanco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. xlvi + 328 pp.
Divergent Modernities is the translation into English of Julio Ramos's groundbreaking Desencuentros de la modernidad en America Latina, last published in 1989. This is a timely and valuable translation of a volume that responded to a fundamental need in the study of Latin American literature and, in so doing, both opened fruitful territory and anticipated vital literary questions. While not appropriate for the undergraduate classroom, this book is an essential source for any scholar pursuing a greater understanding of Latin American cultural paradigms. Specialists of subaltern and postcolonial studies, even outside of Latin American interests, will find much useful material here.
Scholars have long acknowledged that Latin America's "different" modernity requires a theoretical apparatus that corresponds to its own reality, rather than to the experience of modernity in the U.S. or Western Europe. Ramos is one of the first critics successfully to articulate an overarching portrait of the origins of Latin American modernity based on solid contextual evidence. He succeeds because he is...
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