Ángel Rama

Ángel Rama (1926 -November 27, 1983) was a Uruguayan writer, academic, and literary critic, known for his work on "modernismo" and for his theorization of the concept of "transculturation."

Born in Montevideo to Galician immigrants, Rama studied at the "College de France" of the University of Paris. In the 1960s, after several years teaching at the secondary and university level, he became director of the department of Hispanoamerican literature at the University of Montevideo. He held professorships at numerous universities in Europe and the Americas, founded the publishing house Editorial Arca, and served as literary adviser to the Ayacucho Library in Caracas. A member of Uruguay's Generation of '45, also known as the "Critical Generation", he contributed frequently to the weekly review "Marcha" until its suppression in 1974 by the military government of Juan María Bordaberry. One of his best-remembered quotes, "Uruguay made me" (delivered in English), is found in "The Intellectual Lesson of "Marcha", which he wrote following the review's suppression under Bordaberry [Carlos Sánchez Lozano, [http://www.editorialudea.com/revista/277b.html "Ángel Rama: otra época, otra épica"] . "Revista Universidad de Antioquía" 277 (July - Sept 2005).] . He died in a plane crash at Barajas Airport, along with his wife and eminent art historian Marta Traba, the Mexican writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Peruvian poet Manuel Scorza.

Works

* "Los contestatarios del poder"
* "La novela latinoamericana 1920-1980"
* "Transulturación narrativa en América Latina" (1982)
* "La ciudad letrada" (1984)
* "Diario 1970-1983" (posthumous)

References and Links

* Carlos Carlos (ed.), "Ángel Rama. Crítica literaria y utopía en América Latina". Medellín, Universidad de Antioquia, 2006.
* Tomás Eloy Martínez, [http://sololiteratura.com/ramaeloymartinez.htm "Ángel Rama o el placer de la crítica"]
* Mabel Moraña (ed.), "Ángel Rama y los estudios latinoamericanos"