Appropriating Theory : Angel Rama's Critical Work
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| Title: | Appropriating Theory : Angel Rama's Critical Work |
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| 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, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg 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 to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization. |
| Authors: | José Eduardo González |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Spanish American literature, Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg 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 to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization. |
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| ISBN: | 9780822964889 9780822982845 |
