Appropriating Theory: Angel Rama's Critical WorkAngel Rama (1926 1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, Jos Eduardo Gonz lez focuses on Rama's response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Luk cs. Gonz lez argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus