Migración y movilidad: una aproximación a la propuesta teórica de Ángel Rama

Abstract

The concepts of migration and mobility were key components of an area of Uruguayan critic Ángel Rama’s work (Montevideo 1926-Madrid 1983). Human flows comprise a central part of his thought, one which makes it possible for him to situate and systematize Latin American literary phenomena. Rama is interested in the displacement of both creators and subjects, as well as the movement of cultural elements in the framework of a reading of literature based on its faculty for mediating different socio-cultural universes subject to accelerated processes of modernization and mass migration. The approach to the modulations deployed by the critic’s work, in particular his exile, codifies key concerns expressed in two fundamental notions: literary system and transculturation.