Latin America's cultural explosion
Latin America's cultural explosion
In the past quarter of a century, profound changes have been occurring in Latin America which have led certain critics to remark that Latin America is witnessing a veritable "Cultural Explosion". Since 1967, Unesco has been carrying out a wideranging study of Latin American cultures, covering literature, philosophy, architecture, town-planning, the plastic arts, music, theatre, the cinema, etc. For this ambitious enterprise, Unesco has secured the collaboration of a large number of Latin American scholars and specialists.
Many of these studies will be presented in separate volumes under the general title "Latin America Within its Culture". The first volume, dealing with literature, is scheduled to appear later this year or early in 1973. It will first be published in Spanish, probably in collaboration with a commercial publisher. It is planned that editions in other languages will follow in due course. Most of the articles published in this issue will appear in more extensive and elaborate form in the Unesco series of cultural books on Latin America. (Other aspects of civilization, science and education in Latin America were presented in our special issue, "Latin America, 150 years of Independence", in June 1961).