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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 tha
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- Author
- José Eduardo González
- Publisher
- Project Muse, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822964889
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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