Diogo Rodrigues de Barros – The Awareness of Underdevelopment: Latin Americanism and Art Historiography in the 1960s and 1970s
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6 mai 2022
- doi: 10.58079/ajyf
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Academies Editorial Board, « Diogo Rodrigues de Barros – The Awareness of Underdevelopment: Latin Americanism and Art Historiography in the 1960s and 1970s », Transregional Academies, ID : 10.58079/ajyf
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At the end of the 1960s, the Brazilian literary critic Antonio Candido published “Literature and underdevelopment”, an article which quickly became a classic of Latin American cultural studies. It offers a brief history of Latin American cultural self-awareness through its literary production, arguing that from the 1930s intellectuals in the region gradually moved from the optimistic idea of inhabiting a "new land" to a less cheerful "awareness of underdevelopment". This shift in perspective...