Neobaroque in the Americas : alternative modernities in literature, visual art, and film / Monika Kaup.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaup, Monika.

Series:

New World Studies

New world studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baroque literature--Influence.

Baroque literature.

Art, Baroque--Influence.

Art, Baroque.

Latin America--Civilization--21st century.

Latin America.

United States--Civilization--21st century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Neobaroque alternative modernities

Neobaroque Eliot: antidissociationism and the allegorical method

The neobaroque in Djuna Barnes: melancholia and the language of abundance and insufficiency

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

Antidictatorship neobaroque cinema: Raul Ruiz's Memoire des apparences and Maria Luisa Bemberg's Yo, la peor de todas

Hemispheric genealogies of the new world baroque: early modern new world baroque and diasporic baroques in contemporary U.S. Latino/a art and culture.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283705523

1283705524

9780813933146

0813933145

OCLC:

932314977