Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

by Monika Kaup

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813933139
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	11/07/2012
Series:	New World Studies
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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 ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Neobaroque Alternative Modernities 1

1 Neobaroque Eliot: Antidissociationism and the Allegorical Method 29

2 The Neobaroque in Djuna Barnes: Melancholia and the Language of Abundance and Insufficiency 67

3 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 121

4 Antidictatorship Neobaroque Cinema: Raúl Ruiz's Mémoire des apparences and María Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas 183

5 Hemispheric Genealogies of the New World Baroque: Early Modern New World Baroque and Diasporic Baroques in Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Art and Culture 243

Notes 311

Selected Bibliography 353

Index 365

Editorial Reviews

With Neobaroque in the Americas, Monika Kaup presents an insightful and exciting addition to the new and expanding field of neobaroque studies. Kaup’s scholarship is impressive, and what she has to say about her subject matter is original and offers a unique understanding of the continued presence of baroque aesthetics.

Angela Ndalianis

"With Neobaroque in the Americas, Monika Kaup presents an insightful and exciting addition to the new and expanding field of neobaroque studies. Kaup’s scholarship is impressive, and what she has to say about her subject matter is original and offers a unique understanding of the continued presence of baroque aesthetics. "—Angela Ndalianis, University of Melbourne, author of Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment

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