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The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. The work of Ángel Rama (1926-1983) addresses in a seminal way the social and political contexts surrounding Latin American literary produc...

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

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

The Lettered City "changed the ways in which historians, intellectuals and literary critics thought of the literary and cultural history of Latin America."--Walter Mignolo, Duke University

Extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America

Ángel Rama (1926–1983) was a noted literary critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and educator. He left his native Uruguay after the military takeover in 1973 and subsequently taught at the University of Venezuela and the University of Maryland. He is the author of many books, including The Lettered City, also published by Duke University Press. David Frye is a writer and translator who teaches Latin American studies courses at the University...

Angel Rama, one of Latin America’s most distinguished twentieth-century men of letters, was a noted literary critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and educator. He left his native Uruguay following the military takeover and taught at the University of Venezuela and the University of Maryland. He died in 1983 in a plane crash near Madrid. John Charles Chasteen is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ...