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Neobaroque in the Americas alternative modernities in literature, visual art, and film
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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 writer...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Monika Kaup
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (392 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781283705523, 0813933145, 9780813933146, 0813933129, 9780813933122, 1283705524, 0813933137, 9780813933139
- OCLC
- ocn932314977, ocn867739337
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- 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