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

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 "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, this book 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.

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