Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines and Other Essays

Brings together and makes available in English for the first time some of Ángel Rama's most important essays.

ISBN-13: 9781438494494

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Publication Date: 09-01-2023

Pages: 388

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

José Eduardo González is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Appropriating Theory: Ángel Rama's Critical Work. Timothy R. Robbins is Professor of Spanish at Drury University. He is coeditor (with José Eduardo González) of Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Density of Literary History
José Eduardo González

1. Mariano Azuela: Ambition and Frustration of the Middle Class (1966)

2. Criticism and Literature (1971)

3. Spanish American Literature in the Age of Machines (1972)

4. No More Demons (1972)

5. The Two Latin American Avant-Gardes (1973)

6. Literary System and Social System in Spanish America (1975)

7. Literature and Social Class (1976)

8. The Literary System of Gauchesque Poetry (1977)

9. The Boom in Perspective (1979)

10. A Research into Ideology in Poetry (The Diptych Series of Simple Verses) (1980)

11. Narrative Technification (1981)

12. Literature within an Anthropological Framework (1984)

Appendix: Publishing History of the Essays in This Volume
Notes
Bibliography
Index Show More