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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kaup, Monika
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:	New World studies.
Subjects:	Latin America > Civilization > 21st century. United States > Civilization > 21st century. Baroque literature > Influence. Art, Baroque > Influence.

Table of 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.