Ángel Rama

Ángel Rama ( born April 30, 1926 in Montevideo, † November 27, 1983 in Madrid) was an Uruguayan writer, linguist and Hispanist Spanish descent, who is also the Venezuelan and Colombian citizenship possessed.

Life and work

Rama studied from 1947 to 1950 Hispanic-American and European literature on the humanities and social science faculty in Montevideo and 1948-1949 Education at the Sección Agregaturas del Consejo de Enseñanza Secundaria. From 1952 to 1966 he worked then as a lecturer at the Instituto Alfredo Vazquez Acevedo montevideanischen and was from 1952 to 1964 teacher at the Liceo Francés. Meanwhile, his life also led him to Paris. There followed concomitantly 1955-1956 further studies at the Collège de France. For the second year in Paris, he also worked as a teacher at the Ecole de Sevres. From 1963 to 1966 he taught theater history at the Instituto de Arte Dramático in the Uruguayan capital. In 1966 he became professor of Hispanic-American Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Universidad de la República and held this position until 1970. In the following years he was Director of the Department of Hispanic-American Literature at the Faculty. Accompanying it was at that time also worked as a journalist. He was, among other things, 1947-1949 co-director of the university magazine Clinamen and was from 1958 to 1968 director of the literary part of the weekly Marcha. He also worked in the National Library of Montevideo. In 1973 he went into exile in Venezuela and the Venezuelan nationality acquired there in 1977 as a replacement for the lost Uruguayan. From 1979 to 1982 he taught as a visiting professor at Princeton University and Others, 1981-1982 regularly at the University of Maryland, College Park, but had to because of non-renewal of visas to the United States to leave. He went to Paris, received by Belisario Betancur the Colombian nationality and was on his way to Colombia ( together with his second wife Marta Traba ) in a plane crash ( Flight 11 Colombian airline Avianca ) lost their lives. Rama was as a writer for the Generación del 45

1985 was founded in Montevideo, Fundación Ángel Rama. At the University of São Paulo, a research center named after him.

Works

Published during his lifetime

  • La aventura de intelectual Figari, Montevideo 1951
  • Tierra sin mapa, Montevideo 1961, 1985 ( Brazilian Terra sem mapa, São Paulo 2008)
  • Rubén Darío y el modernismo, Caracas, 1970, 1985
  • Diez problemas para el narrador latinoamericano, Caracas 1972
  • La generación crítica, Montevideo 1972
  • Los gauchipolíticos Rioplatenses. Literatura y sociedad, Buenos Aires 1976, 1982, Montevideo 1995
  • Los dictadores latinoamericanos, Mexico 1976
  • Transculturación narrativa en América Latina, Mexico / Madrid / Buenos Aires in 1982, 1985, 1987, 2000, 2004, 2006; Montevideo 1989, Buenos Aires 2007 (English: . Narrative Writing Across Cultures transculturation in Latin America, London 2012)
  • La novela latino americana, Bogotá 1982
  • (Ed.) The long struggle Lateinamerikas.Texte and documents from José Martí to Salvador Allende, Frankfurt am Main 1982, 1984
  • Literatura y clase social, Mexico 1984

Published posthumously

  • La ciudad letrada, Hanover N. J. 1984, 2002; Montevideo 1995, 1998; Santiago de Chile 2004; Madrid 2009 ( Brazilian: A cidade the letras, São Paulo 1985, English: The Lettered City, Durham, N C. 1996)
  • Las máscaras democráticas del modernismo, Montevideo 1985
  • La crítica de la cultura en América Latina, ed. Saúl Sosnowski and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Caracas 1985
  • Ensayos sobre literatura venezolana, Caracas, 1985, 1991
  • La novela en América latina. Panoramas 1920-1980, Montevideo 1986
  • García Márquez. Edificación de una cultura nacional y popular, Montevideo 1987
  • Antología de " El techo de la Ballena ", Caracas 1987
  • La riesgosa navegación del escritor exiliado, Montevideo 1993, 1998
  • Diario 1974-1983, ed. Rosario Peyrou, Montevideo 2001, 2008, 2011; Caracas 2008, 2012
  • Crítica literaria y utopía en América latina, ed. by Carlos Sánchez Lozano, Medellín 2006
  • Literatura, Cultura y sociedad en América Latina, ed. by Pablo Rocca, Montevideo 2006
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