Utopía y crítica cultural: a propósito de Rama y Martí.

Abstract

The essay "Utopía y crítica cultural: a propósito de Rama y Martí" proposes a revision of Ángel Rama‘s essay, "La dialéctica de la modernidad en José Martí", through the latest theoretical developments in the study of the Latin American literature. It studies Rama‘s essays as a perfect space to examine two operations constitutive of modern ideology: the interpellative character that the text promotes when it encourages the reader to participate in Martí‘s utopian project of " social justice" still delegated to the future; and the development of an intellectual that unifies professionalization to which the writing practice has been subjected since the XIX century, to the "social totality". On the other hand, it examines the essay as part of the "mourning process" that characterizes much of the post-boom literature.