Carlos Rincon
Carlos Rincón (born October 10, 1937 in Colombia ; † December 24, 2018 in Germany , actually Carlos Eduardo Rincón Bolivar ) was a Colombian-German literary scholar and cultural theorist who taught at the Latin America Institute of the Free University of Berlin from 1990 until his retirement .
Life
Rincón initially studied in Colombia, but then went to the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1965 under Werner Bahner and the famous Romanist Werner Krauss . Between 1970 and 1976 he carried out research at what was then the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, partly in Leipzig, partly in Berlin. With Werner Krauss, Rincón moved to Berlin for some time. From 1976 to 1980 Rincón was a full professor at the Universidad Central in Caracas , Venezuela.
He later moved to Colombia and Nicaragua; Among other things, he was personal advisor to the Nicaraguan Minister of Education, Ernesto Cardenal, from 1980 to 1986 . In 1990 he accepted a position at the Free University of Berlin for the "Chair for Literary and Cultural Theory", where he taught until his retirement in 2002.
Rincón was described as one of the "most important contemporary literary and cultural theorists", especially with regard to Latin America.
In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig.
Publications (selection)
- El cambio actual de la noción de literatura y otros estudios de teoria y crítica latinoamerica , 1978, Bogotá, Instituto Colombiano de Cultura
- (as ed.): Twenty-six stories from Venezuela. Series: Explorations, no. - People and World, Berlin 1981, 1983
- (as ed.): Fifty storytellers from Central America. Explorations (book series) o. No. Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1988
- (as ed.): Crítica Literaria hoy. Entre las crisis y los cambios: un nuevo escenario. Stanford 1995
- La no simultaneidad de lo simultáneo: postmodernidad, globalización y culturas en América Latina , 1995, Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Mapas y plieges: ensayos de cartografía cultural y de lectura del neobarroco , 1996, Bogotá, Colcultura
- García Márquez, Hawthorne, Shakespeare, de la Vega & Co. Unltd , 1999, Bogotá, Instituto Caro y Cuervo
- De la guerra de las imágenes a la mezcla barroca de los imaginarios en el mundo colonial americano , 2007, Bogotá, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Íconos y mitos culturales en la invención de la nación en Colombia , 2014, Bogotá, Universidad Javeriana
- Avatares de la memoria cultural en Colombia. Formas simbólicas del Estado, museos y canon literario , 2015, Bogotá, Universidad Javeriana
Festschrift for Rincón
- Nana Badenberg (Ed.): Eccentric Spaces: Festschrift for Carlos Rincón , Heinz, Stuttgart 2000 (Series Historamericana Vol. 9) ISBN 3-88099-678-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Carlos Rincón in the catalog of the German National Library
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig for Rincón
- Page about Prize for Rincon at the Free University of Berlin, 1996
- Carlos Rincón y la crítica de la voluntad de verdad. Una pragmática de la crítica literaria
notes
- ↑ http://www.uni-protocol.de/nachrichten/id/27119/
- ↑ therein: Arturo Uslar Pietri , The Wolf Boy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rincon, Carlos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bolivar, Carlos Eduardo Rincón (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Colombian literary scholar and cultural theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Colombia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 2018 |
| Place of death | Germany |