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A comprehensive account of the development of Rama s thought. It traces the numerous revisions that Rama made of key concepts and insights, in the context of a series of debates and concerns that are by turns theoretical, regional, political, and biographical. It shows how the Uruguayan critic s work was forever informed by a voracious if skeptical appetite for European theory. Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia

A comprehensive account of the development of Rama's thought. It traces the numerous revisions that Rama made of key concepts and insights, in the context of a series of debates and concerns that are by turns theoretical, regional, political, and biographical. It shows how the Uruguayan critic's work was forever informed by a voracious if skeptical appetite for European theory. --Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia A fascinating and innovative study of Angel Rama's silent and open dialogue with his intellectual interlocutors and the effects this dialogue had on Rama's notion of 'cultural modernization.' It follows Rama's evolution chronologically as a thinker who reflects on and writes about the impact of economics, politics, and society on literary matters in Latin America from colonial times to the late twentieth century. --Greg Dawes, North Carolina State University -A comprehensive account of the development of Rama's thought. It traces the numerous revisions that Rama made of key concepts and insights, in the context of a series of debates and concerns that are by turns theoretical, regional, political, and biographical. It shows how the Uruguayan critic's work was forever informed by a voracious if skeptical appetite for European theory.- --Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia -A fascinating and innovative study of Angel Rama's silent and open dialogue with his intellectual interlocutors and the effects this dialogue had on Rama's notion of 'cultural modernization.' It follows Rama's evolution chronologically as a thinker who reflects on and writes about the impact of economics, politics, and society on literary matters in Latin America from colonial times to the late twentieth century.- --Greg Dawes, North Carolina State University A comprehensive account of the development of Rama s thought. It traces the numerous revisions that Rama made of key concepts and insights, in the context of a series of debates and concerns that are by turns theoretical, regional, political, and biographical. It shows how the Uruguayan critic s work was forever informed by a voracious if skeptical appetite for European theory. Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia A fascinating and innovative study of Angel Rama s silent and open dialogue with his intellectual interlocutors and the effects this dialogue had on Rama s notion of cultural modernization. It follows Rama s evolution chronologically as a thinker who reflects on and writes about the impact of economics, politics, and society on literary matters in Latin America from colonial times to the late twentieth century. Greg Dawes, North Carolina State University

Jose Eduardo Gonzalez ha escrito un importante y polemico libro sobre el reconocido critico uruguayo Angel Rama. A traves de un fino analisis comparatista, Appropriating Theory estudia la influencia de la teoria continental en la obra del uruguayo. --Bulletin of Spanish Studies A comprehensive account of the development of Rama's thought. It traces the numerous revisions that Rama made of key concepts and insights, in the context of a series of debates and concerns that are by turns theoretical, regional, political, and biographical. It shows how the Uruguayan critic's work was forever informed by a voracious if skeptical appetite for European theory. --Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia A fascinating and innovative study of Angel Rama's silent and open dialogue with his intellectual interlocutors and the effects this dialogue had on Rama's notion of 'cultural modernization.' It follows Rama's evolution chronologically as a thinker who reflects on and writes about the impact of economics, politics, and society on literary matters in Latin America from colonial times to the late twentieth century. --Greg Dawes, North Carolina State University

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Jose Eduardo Gonzalez is associate professor of Spanish at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Borges and the Politics of Form and coeditor of Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: Essays on Art, Literature and Culture, and New Trends in

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