The inordinate eye : New World Baroque and Latin American fiction / Lois Parkinson Zamora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zamora, Lois Parkinson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Baroque--Latin America.

Arts, Baroque.

Art, Latin American.

Latin American literature.

Cultural fusion and the arts.

Lateinamerika.

Latin America.

Local Subjects:

Lateinamerika.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 420 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Summary:

"The Inordinate Eye traces the Baroque from a European colonizing instrument encoding Catholic and monarchical ideologies to a New World instrument of resistance to those same structures. Lois Parkinson Zamora shows that in the early decades of the twentieth century Latin American writers began to recuperate the hybrid forms of New World Baroque art and architecture for the purpose of creating a discourse of "counterconquest"--That is, a discourse of postcolonial self-definition aimed at disrupting entrenched power structures, perceptual categories, and literary forms."--Jacket.

Contents:

Quetzalcóatl's mirror and Guadalupe's eye : Syncretism and seeing

Prehispanic codices, murals, and historical display / Rivera, Garro, Galeano, and Ibargüengoitia

New World Baroque and the dynamic of displacement / Carpentier, De Nomé, Lezama Lima, and Sarduy

The Baroque self / Kahlo and García Márquez

Borges's neobaroque illusionism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-395) and index.

Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2006

Other Format:

Online version: Zamora, Lois Parkinson. Inordinate eye.

ISBN:

0226978567

9780226978567

OCLC:

61478763

Publisher Number:

9780226978567

99813325801

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