The Fantasy of Globalism : the Latin American Neo-Baroque / John V. Waldron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldron, John V., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Globalization in literature.

Baroque literature--Influence.

Baroque literature.

Physical Description:

xiii, 177 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]

Summary:

For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings, the one that most concerns The Fantasy of Globalism is the perceived foreclosure of any alternatives to the capitalistic ideology that structures globalization. Even criticisms of globalization are bounded by its limits since the critical models they use cannot conceive of a space outside its homogenizing discourse. Against the final limits that shape most interpretations of globalization, John V. Waldron shows how writers on the periphery of the globalizing north, through the development and deployment of neo-baroque imaginings, offer a different possibility to monological globalism. He argues that the baroque has been a way of resisting and reconfiguring the colonial gaze in Latin America since the time of the first encounter to the present. Book jacket.

Contents:

Globalization, the Neobaroque and the Gaze

El reino de este mundo and the Ghost of Haiti

The national symptom in three Puerto Rican authors: René Marqués, Ana Lydia Vega and Judith Ortiz Cofer

An interlude: magical realism and failed incorporation

The vanishing real: magical realism's political swerve

In García Márquez's la Increíble y Triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y su abuela desalmada

Engaging the darkness in Mayra Montero's Tú, la oscuridad.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739177761

0739177761

OCLC:

860394649