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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815616203321

Autore

Kaup Monika

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-70552-4

0-8139-3314-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

New world studies

Disciplina

980.04

Soggetti

Baroque literature - Influence

Art, Baroque - Influence

Latin America Civilization 21st century

United States Civilization 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.