Neobaroque in the Americas
Subtitle: alternative modernities in literature, visual art, and film
By: Monika Kaup
Series: New world studies
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780813933139; 9780813933122; 9780813933146
Subjects: Baroque literature; Civilization; Influence; Baroque Art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Neobaroque alternative modernities; title: Neobaroque Eliot: antidissociationism and the allegorical method; title: The neobaroque in Djuna Barnes: melancholia and the language of abundance and insufficiency; title: The Latin American antidictatorship neobaroque: allegories of history as catastrophe and performances of the wounded self in Diamela Eltit's Lumperica and Jose Donoso's Casa de Campo; title: Antidictatorship neobaroque cinema: Raul Ruiz's Memoire des apparences and Maria Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas; title: Hemispheric genealogies of the new world baroque: early modern new world baroque and diasporic baroques in contemporary U.S. Latino/a art and culture.