Neobaroque in the Americas

by Kaup, Monika

• ISBN13: 9780813933139
• ISBN10: 0813933137
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-07
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the Baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "Neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the traditional scholarship that confined the Baroque to a specific period, class, and ideology in the seventeenth century. Reflecting on the rich, nonlinear genealogy of Baroque expression, Neobaroque in the Americas envisions the Baroque as an anti-proprietary expression that brings together seemingly disparate writers and artists and contributes to the new studies in global modernity.

Author Biography

Monika Kaup, Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, is the coeditor, with Lois Parkinson Zamora, of Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Neobaroque Alternative Modernities	p. 1
Neobaroque Eliot: Antidissociationism and the Allegorical Method	p. 29
The Neobaroque in Djuna Barnes: Melancholia and the Language of Abundance and Insufficiency	p. 67
The Latin American Antidictatorship Neobaroque: Allegories of History as Catastrophe and Performances of the Wounded Self in Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica and José Donoso's Casa de campo	p. 121
Antidictatorship Neobaroque Cinema: Raúl Ruiz's Mémoire des apparences and María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas	p. 183
Hemispheric Genealogies of the New World Baroque: Early Modern New World Baroque and Diasporic Baroques in Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Art and Culture	p. 243
Notes	p. 311
Selected Bibliography	p. 353
Index	p. 365
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