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Appropriating Theory: Angel Rama's Critical Work

By José Eduardo González

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0822964880, 9780822964889
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8703128 bytes)
Series
(Illuminations)
Edition
1
Pages
240\245
Topic
Literature
Time added
2021-07-25 15:45:39
Cultural StudiesLiterary CriticismLiterary Theory

Description

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. Contents Introduction 1. Debates, Dreams, and Fears 2. Nature and Interior 3. Origins of Transculturation 4. Mediations 5. Technique and Technology 6. The Burden of Exile 7. Misunderstanding Foucault Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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