Appropriating Theory: Angel Rama'S Critical Work (Pitt Illuminations)

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 Gonzßlez focuses on RamaÆs response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukßcs. Gonzßlez 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
• | Publication Date: Aug 11, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0822964880
• | ISBN-13: 9780822964889