Books by José Eduardo González
This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first centu... more This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American fiction. The contributors to this volume seek to understand the characteristics that make the representation of the postmodern city in a Latin American context unique. The chapters focus on cities from a wide variety of countries in the region, highlighting the cultural and political effects of neoliberalism and globalization in the contemporary urban scene. Twenty-first century authors share an interest for images of ruins and dystopian landscapes and their view of the damaging effects of the global market in Latin America tends to be pessimistic. As the book demonstrates, however, utopian elements or “spaces of hope” can also be found in these narrations, which suggest the possibility of transforming a capitalist-dominated living space.
Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but lit... more Angel 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, José Eduardo González focuses on Rama’s response to and appropriation of European critics like Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Georg Lukács. González argues that Rama realized the inapplicability of many of their theories and descriptions of cultural modernization to Latin America, and thus reworked them to produce his own discourse that challenged prevailing notions of social and cultural modernization.
Papers by José Eduardo González
Primitivism and Identity in Latin America, 2022
... II. Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo. ... mel-ancholy tendencies.“ In this manner ofthinking Guerrero b... more ... II. Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo. ... mel-ancholy tendencies.“ In this manner ofthinking Guerrero begins to develop the mythology ofthe diverse facets or masks ofthe Mexican, that singular being in which ferocity and misanthropy, mockery and stoicism, caprice and sloth, bestiality and ...
Si algo ha caracterizado la critica literaria de este siglo es el desplazamiento de la atencion a... more Si algo ha caracterizado la critica literaria de este siglo es el desplazamiento de la atencion a la experiencia personal del autor al texto mismo, es decir, la transition que va de los primeros rechazos de la critica romantica decimononica y su culto a la personalidad del autor como clave de la obra artistica, a la "muerte del autor". Pero si en realidad ahora ha desaparecido o al menos tiene poca importancia lo que antes era el centro productor del discurso, <:que papel puede jugar, por ejemplo, el antiguo genero de la "entrevista a un escritor" dentro del campo de la literatura? O, planteado de otra manera mas general, hasta que punto el critico esta justificado en utilizar las experiencias privadas de los escritores como punto de referenda no ya tan solo para analizar una novela o un poema, sino para construir una vision panoramica de todo un cuerpo literario? Las preguntas son por supuesto todavia mas relevantes en el caso de la literatura latina escrita ...
Revista De Estudios Hispanicos, 1999
Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, 2020
Resena de Javier Garcia Liendo,.El intelectual y la cultura de masas. Argumentos latinoamericanos... more Resena de Javier Garcia Liendo,.El intelectual y la cultura de masas. Argumentos latinoamericanos en torno a Angel Rama y Jose Maria Arguedas. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 2017.
Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature, 2018
Gonzalez studies the emergence of the Spatial Turn in the 1990s and its impact on the Latin Ameri... more Gonzalez studies the emergence of the Spatial Turn in the 1990s and its impact on the Latin American literary critics analyzing the representation of the city in Latin American literature. He highlights the important role of early twenty-first century feminist readings of Latin American women writers in updating the study of urban space, focusing in their rejection of Angel Rama’s theory of the lettered city. Gonzalez then summarizes the prevailing view of the neoliberal and postmodern city among cultural critics and social scientists. The general perception of the Latin American urban space as a place in ruins is a common theme that connects many of the contemporary readings of this topic. However, Gonzalez also notices in contemporary fiction the presence of utopian elements, of community efforts to improve the living conditions created by globalization.
Revista Iberoamericana, 2019
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 2018
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New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative, 2014
In the 1977 preface to the Ayacucho Collection’s edition of Ruben Dario’s poetry, Angel Rama open... more In the 1977 preface to the Ayacucho Collection’s edition of Ruben Dario’s poetry, Angel Rama opens with the question “Why is he still ‘alive’? Why, after new writers have eliminated his aesthetics, abandoned his precious vocabulary, surpassed his themes, and even repudiated his poetics, he stubbornly continues to sing with his powerful voice?” (“Pr o logo” 9). What fascinated Rama about modernismo — and made him return to the topic time and again—was the movement’s position within Latin American literary history as founders of a tradition. Modernistas were the creators of a literary system that, among other things, took into account the relationship between authors and their main literary market, the Latin American readers. For Rama, modernismo’s foundational gesture had two important consequences: one, the search for a mode of expression uniquely Latin American, an idea originally started in the early nineteenth century, and, two, the unprecedented influence of the movement on the region’s literary history. Modernismo became an obligatory point of reference for future authors and movements.
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative, 2014
In To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society, Louis A. Perez devotes his last chapter to study the cond... more In To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society, Louis A. Perez devotes his last chapter to study the conditions that have increased the number suicides in the Caribbean island after the revolution. The first section of the text focuses on establishing the origin of a certain view of death prevalent among Cubans before 1959 and which, with important changes, is continued during the revolutionary period. For Perez, the nineteenth-century fight for Cuban independence “inscribed itself deeply into the dominant configurations of nationality” (322), both spontaneously—in legends, popular memory, songs—and as part of the deliberate construction of a Cuban identity through the erection of monuments and statues, the renaming of cities, public spaces, and streets: “In 1921, the Cuban congress required every municipality of the island to dedicate a statue, bust, plaque, or memorial to Marti” (324). The national images and symbols such as a national anthem that includes the line “to die for the fatherland is to live” or a national bird “selected for its reputation for dying in captivity” (324) were reinforced by the historical legacy of sacrifice children learned in school.
Nuevo Texto Crítico, 1996
... seguramente dinero constitucionalista y aunque no sabemos exactamente de cu?l emisi?n se trat... more ... seguramente dinero constitucionalista y aunque no sabemos exactamente de cu?l emisi?n se trate, es apropiado suponer que se trata de moneda vil lista.7 El contraste entre los dos ... El puro rel?, y eso porque ya debo los doscientos pesos a Pancracio, que anoche me gan? ...
New Trends in Contemporary Latin American Narrative, 2014
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