Appropriating theory : Ángel Rama's critical work /

Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. Gonzalez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Georg Lukacs. He argues that Rama r...

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Main Author: González, José Eduardo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017].
Series:Illuminations (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Debates, dreams, and fears -- Nature and interior -- Origins of transculturation -- Mediations -- Technique and technology -- The burden of exile -- Misunderstanding Foucault -- Conclusion. 
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