Ángel Rama

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Ángel Rama (born April 30, 1926 in Montevideo , † November 27, 1983 in Madrid ) was a Uruguayan writer, Romanist and Hispanist of Spanish descent, who also had Venezuelan and Colombian citizenship.

life and work

Rama in the Generación del 45 (back far right) (no year)

Rama studied Spanish American and European literature from 1947 to 1950 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Montevideo and from 1948 to 1949 education at the Sección Agregaturas del Consejo de Enseñanza Secundaria . From 1952 to 1966 he then worked as a lecturer at the Montevidean Instituto Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo and was a teacher at the Liceo Francés from 1952 to 1964. In the meantime, his life path also took him to Paris . There followed from 1955 to 1956 further studies at the Collège de France . In his 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 for Hispanic American literature at the humanities and social sciences faculty at the Universidad de la República and held this position until 1970. Subsequently, he was director of the department for Hispanic American literature at the faculty. At the same time he was also active as a journalist. Among other things, he was co-director of the university magazine Clinamen from 1947 to 1949 and director of the literary section of the weekly Marcha from 1958 to 1968 . He also worked in the National Library of Montevideo . In 1973 he went into exile in Venezuela , where he acquired Venezuelan citizenship in 1977 as a replacement for the lost Uruguayan one. From 1979 to 1982 he taught as a visiting professor a. a. at Princeton University , from 1981 to 1982 at the University of Maryland, College Park , but had to leave the United States again because the visa was not renewed. He went to Paris, obtained Colombian citizenship through Belisario Betancur and died on the way to Colombia (together with his second wife Marta Traba ) in an air disaster ( Avianca flight 011 ). As a writer, Rama belonged to the Generación del 45 .

In 1985 the Fundación Ángel Rama was founded in Montevideo. A research center was named after him at the University of São Paulo .

Works

Appeared during his lifetime

  • La aventura intelectual de 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 1982, 1985, 1987, 2000, 2004, 2006; Montevideo 1989, Buenos Aires 2007 (English: Writing across cultures. Narrative transculturation in Latin America , London 2012)
  • La novela latinoamericana , Bogotá 1982
  • (Ed.) The Long Struggle of Latin America. Texts and documents from José Martí to Salvador Allende , Frankfurt a. M. 1982, 1984
  • Literatura y clase social , Mexico 1984

Published posthumously

  • La ciudad letrada , Hanover NJ 1984, 2002; Montevideo 1995, 1998; Santiago de Chile 2004; Madrid 2009 (Brazilian: A cidade das 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. by Saúl Sosnowski and Tomás Eloy Martínez, Caracas 1985
  • Ensayos sobre literatura venezolana , Caracas 1985, 1991
  • La novela en America latina. Panoramas 1920-1980 , Montevideo 1986
  • García Marquez. 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. by 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

literature

  • Carina Blixen / Alvaro Barros-Lemez , Cronología y bibliografía de Ángel Rama , Montevideo 1986
  • Maribel Ortiz, La modernidad conflictiva. Angel Rama y el estudio de la literatura latinoamericana , Diss. State University of New York at Stony Brook 1993
  • Ángel Rama y los estudios latinoamericanos , ed. by Mabel Moraña, Pittsburgh 1997
  • Angel Rama. Hablar a través del tiempo. Testimonio , ed. by Marcelo Larrea Cabrera, Quito 2001
  • Pablo Rocca, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal y el Brasil. Dos caras de un proyecto latinoamericano , Montevideo 2006
  • Roseli Barros Cunha, Transculturação narrativa. Seu percurso na obra crítica de Ángel Rama , São Paulo 2007 (Diss. 2005)
  • Ángel Rama, explorador de la culture. Exposición , ed. by Hortensia Campanella, Montevideo 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fundación Angel Rama: Angel Rama - Breve biografía (Spanish), accessed on March 19, 2014 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Rama, Angel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan writer, Romanyist and Hispanist of Spanish descent who also held Venezuelan and Colombian citizenship
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1983
Place of death Madrid