Appropriating Theory - Angel Rama's Critical Work

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies. In this book, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Benjamin, Adorno, and Lukács. Gonzalez argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them.

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.

Summary

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies. In this book, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Benjamin, Adorno, and Lukacs. Gonzalez argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them.

Product details

• Authors: Josae Eduardo Gonzaalez, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez, José Eduardo González
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780822964889
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6488-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Pitt Illuminations; Pitt Illuminations; Illuminations
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies