Appropriating theory: Ángel Rama's critical work

"Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukacs. He argues that...

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Main Author: González, José Eduardo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press [2017]
Series:Illuminations
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Summary:"Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukacs. He argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.
Physical Description:x, 232 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9780822964889

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