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This volume attempts to move beyond these debates to pose fundamental questions about the function and continued relevance of the public sphere today

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Through the Kaleidoscope keyword-literary-studies This volume attempts to moveModernity in Latin America is defined above all by its multi layered, kaleidoscopic quality. Reminiscent of Octavio Pazs labyrinth, it is a modernity which has accommodated a piling on of new traditions to old, a blending of external cultures with local, and of high cultures with more popular onesmixes which allowed a rich and celebratory avant garde movement, for example, to emerge in the 1920s, and prompted the explosive growth of cities like Rio de