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- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
- Uniform Title
- Appropriating Theory (Online)
- Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Appropriating Theory (Online)
- Subject
- Rama, Ángel > Criticism and interpretation
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-227) and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Debates, dreams, and fears -- Nature and interior -- Origins of transculturation -- Mediations -- Technique and technology -- The burden of exile -- Misunderstanding Foucault -- Conclusion.
- OCLC
- ssj0001861025
- Author
Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo.
- Title
Appropriating Theory [electronic resource] : Angel Rama's Critical Work / Jose Eduardo Gonzalez.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas series
Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-227) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Print version: 0822964880 9780822964889