Baroque New Worlds

by Zamora, Lois Parkinson; Kaup, Monika

• ISBN13: 9780822346425
• ISBN10: 0822346427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-22
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Baroque New Worldstraces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a postcolonial ideology aimed at disrupting entrenched power structures and perceptual categories. Baroque forms are exuberant, ample, dynamic, and porous; in the regions colonized by Catholic Europe, the Baroque was itself eventually colonized. In the New World, its transplants immediately began to incorporate the cultural perspectives and iconographies of the indigenous and African artisans who built and decorated Catholic structures. Europe's own cultural products were radically altered in turn. Today, under the rubric of the Neobaroque, this transculturated American Baroque continues to impel artistic expression in literature, the visual arts, architecture, and popular entertainment worldwide. Neobaroque reconstitutions necessarily require reference to the European Baroque.Baroque New Worldsbegins with the reevaluation of the Baroque that evolved in Europe during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Foundational essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Wouml;lfflin, Walter Benjamin, Eugenio D'Ors, Reneacute; Wellek, and Mario Praz recuperate and redefine the historical Baroque. Their essays lay the groundwork for the revisionist Latin American essays, many of which have not been translated into English until now. Authors including Alejo Carpentier, Joseacute; Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Eacute;douard Glissant, Haroldo de Campos, and Carlos Fuentes understand the Baroque as an alternative modernity, and the New World Baroque and Neobaroque as decolonizing strategies in Latin America and other postcolonial contexts. This collection is a rich, interdisciplinary investigation of the transhistorical and transcultural forms and functions of the Baroque.

Author Biography

Lois Parkinson Zamora is John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Professor in the Departments of English, History, and Art at the University of Houston. Monika Kaup is Associate Professor of English and Adjunt Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
ôBaroque, New World Baroque, Neobaroque: Categories and Concepts	p. 1
Representation: Foundational Essays on Baroque Aesthetics and Ideology
The European Baroque
Editors' Note to Chapter One	p. 41
ôOn the Baroqueö (1878)	p. 44
Editors' Note to Chapter Two	p. 46
Excerpt from the Introduction to Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art (1915)	p. 49
Editors' Note to Chapter Three	p. 55
Excerpts from The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928)	p. 59
Editors' Note to Chapter Four	p. 75
Excerpts from ôThe Debate on the Baroque in Pontignyö (1935)	p. 78
Editors'Note to Chapter Five	p. 93
Excerpts from ôThe Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarshipö (1945, rev. 1962)	p. 95
Editors' Note to Chapter Six	p. 115
ôBaroque in Englandö (1960)	p. 119
Editors' Note to Chapter Seven	p. 136
Chapter 2 from La folie du voir, ôThe Work of the Gazeö (1986)	p. 140
The New World Baroque and the Neobaroque
Editors' Note to Chapter Eight	p. 161
Excerpt from ôSavoring Góngoraö (1928)	p. 165
Editors' Note to Chapter Nine	p. 179
Chapter 1 from Redescubrimiento de América en el arte, ôAmerica's Relation to Europe in the Artsö (1936)	p. 183
Editors' Note to Chapter Ten	p. 198
ôThe Baroque in Americaö (1940)	p. 200
Editors' Note to Chapter Eleven	p. 209
Chapter 2 from La expresión americana, ôBaroque Curiosityö (1957)	p. 212
Editors' Note to Chapters Twelve and Thirteen	p. 241
ôThe City of Columnsö (1964)	p. 244
Excerpt from ôQuestions Concerning the Contemporary Latin American Novelö (1964)	p. 259
Editors' Note to Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen	p. 265
ôThe Baroque and the Neobaroqueö (1972)	p. 270
Chapter 3 from Barroco, ôBaroque Cosmology: Keplerö (1974)	p. 292
Editors' Note to Chapter Sixteen	p. 316
ôThe Rule of Anthropophagy: Europe under the Sign of Devorationö (1981)	p. 319
Transculturation: Colonial Practice
"Góngora in Spanish American Poetry, Góngora in Luso-Brazilian Poetry: Critical Parallels"	p. 343
ôSor Juana and Luis de Góngora: The Poetics of Imitatioö (2006)	p. 352
ôAmerican Baroque Histories and Geographies from Sigüenza y Góngora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezamaö	p. 394
ôBaroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Idealö	p. 415
ôBaroque Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New Franceö	p. 450
ôThe Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican Identitiesö	p. 467
Counterconquest: Postcolonial Positions
Chapter 2 from Ensayo de contraconquista, ôFrom the Baroque to the Neobaroqueö (2001)	p. 487
Chapter 1 from Barroco y modernidad, ôThe Baroque at the Twilight of Modernityö (2000)	p. 508
Editors' Note to Chapter	p. 529
ôThe Novel as Tragedy: William Faulknerö (1970)	p. 531
ôGóngora's and Lezama's Appetitesö (1978)	p. 554
ôEurope and Latin America in José Lezama Limaö	p. 571
ôSeeking a Cuba of the Self: Baroque Dialogues between José Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevensö	p. 597
Editors' Note to Chapter Twenty-nine	p. 622
ôConcerning a Baroque Abroad in the Worldö (1990)	p. 624
Bibliography	p. 627
Notes on Contributors	p. 645
Index	p. 651
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