Appropriating Theory: Angel 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. In this study, Jos Eduardo Gonz lez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Luk cs. Gonz lez 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.

Author: Jose Eduardo Gonzalez
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 08/11/2017
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780822964889

About the Author
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.