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

In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, the author examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neob...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaup, Monika
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012
Series:New World studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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 Lumpérica and Jose Donoso's Casa de Campo
  • Antidictatorship neobaroque cinema : Raul Ruiz's Mémoire des apparences and María 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.