Appropriating Theory

Angel Rama's Critical Work

AvJosé Eduardo González

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukács. González argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-28
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Illuminations
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822964889

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Jose Eduardo Gonzalez is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Borges and the Politics of Form and coeditor of Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: Essays on Art, Literature and Culture, and New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative: Post-National Literatures and the Canon.

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A fascinating and innovative study of Angel Rama's silent and open dialogue with his intellectual interlocutors and the effects this dialogue had on Rama's notion of 'cultural modernization.' It follows Rama's evolution chronologically as a thinker who reflects on and writes about the impact of economics, politics, and society on literary matters in Latin America from colonial times to the late twentieth century.