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Neobaroque in the Americas

Kaup, Monika.

Neobaroque in the Americas alternative modernities in literature, visual art, and film / [electronic resource] : Monika Kaup. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (392 p.) - New world studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780813933146 0813933145


Art, Baroque--Influence.
Baroque literature--Influence.


United States--Civilization--21st century.
Latin America--Civilization--21st century.


Electronic books.

F1408.3 / K385 2012

980.04