Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film Contributor(s): Kaup, Monika (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813933129 ISBN-13: 9780813933122 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | Latin America - South America |
Dewey: 980.04 |
LCCN: 2012019470 |
Series: New World Studies |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.3" (1.45 lbs) 392 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup 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 "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the traditional scholarship that confined the baroque to a specific period, class, and ideology in the seventeenth century. 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. |