Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an understanding of Hispanic cultures during the last several hundred years

Introduction: The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises

Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martin-Estudillo

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PART I The Baroque and Its Dark Sides

1 On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque

Fernando R. de la Flor

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(17)

2 Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque

Hernán Vidal

20

(35)

PART II Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival

3 Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds

William Egginton

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(17)

4 Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque: Quevedo and Gracián

Fernando Ordóñez

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(15)

5 Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition

David R. Castillo

87

(20)

PART III Institutions and Subjectivities in Baroque Spain

6 From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: An Other Point of View in the Auto Sacramental

Bradley J. Nelson

107

(30)

7 The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literary Field

Carlos M. Gutiérrez

137

(25)

8 Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque: Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella

Nieves Romero-Diaz

162

(25)

PART IV Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context

9 Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque: Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes

Silvia B. Suárez

187

(18)

10 Freedom and Containment in Colonial Theology: Sor Juana's Carta atenagórica

Paola Marin

205

(17)

11 Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts, and Walking Skulls: Criollo's Subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and Bartolomé Arzans de Orsúa y Vela

Leonardo Garcia-Pabón

222

(19)

PART V The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings

12 Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity

Mabel Moraña

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Afterword: Redressing the Baroque

Edward H. Friedman

283

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Contributors

307

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Index

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