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Baroque New Worlds traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a postcolonial ideology aimed at disrupting entrenched power structures and perceptual categories. Baroque forms are exuberant, ample, dynamic, and porous, and in the regions colonized by Catholic Europe, the Baroque was itself eventually colonized. In the New World, its transplants immediately began to reflect the cultural perspectives and iconographies of the indigenous and African artisans who built and decorated Catholic structures, and Europe’s own cultural products were radically altered in turn. Today, under the rubric of the Neobaroque, this transculturated Baroque continues to impel artistic expression in literature, the visual arts, architecture, and popular entertainment worldwide.Since Neobaroque reconstitutions necessarily reference the European Baroque, this volume begins with the reevaluation of the Baroque that evolved in Europe during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. Foundational essays by Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinrich Wölfflin, Walter Benjamin, Eugenio d’Ors, René Wellek, and Mario Praz recuperate and redefine the historical Baroque. Their essays lay the groundwork for the revisionist Latin American essays, many of which have not been translated into English until now. Authors including Alejo Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, Severo Sarduy, Édouard Glissant, Haroldo de Campos, and Carlos Fuentes understand the New World Baroque and Neobaroque as decolonizing strategies in Latin America and other postcolonial contexts. This collection moves between art history and literary criticism to provide a rich interdisciplinary discussion of the transcultural forms and functions of the Baroque.Contributors. Dorothy Z. Baker, Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, José Pascual Buxó, Leo Cabranes-Grant, Haroldo de Campos, Alejo Carpentier, Irlemar Chiampi, William Childers, Gonzalo Celorio, Eugenio d’Ors, Jorge Ruedas de la Serna, Carlos Fuentes, Édouard Glissant, Roberto González Echevarría, Ángel Guido, Monika Kaup, José Lezama Lima, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mario Praz, Timothy J. Reiss, Alfonso Reyes, Severo Sarduy, Pedro Henríquez Ureña, Maarten van Delden, René Wellek, Christopher Winks, Heinrich Wölfflin, Lois Parkinson Zamora
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Baroque, New World Baroque, Neobaroque -- Chapter One. On the Baroque -- Chapter Two. Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art -- Chapter Three. The Origin of German Tragic Drama -- Chapter Four. The Debate on the Baroque in Pontigny -- Chapter Five. The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship -- Chapter Six. Baroque in England -- Chapter Seven The Work of the Gaze -- Chapter Eight. Savoring Góngora -- Chapter Nine. America’s Relation to Europe in the Arts -- Chapter Ten. The Baroque in America -- Chapter Eleven. Baroque Curiosity -- Chapter Twelve. The City of Columns -- Chapter Thirteen. Questions Concerning the Contemporary Latin American Novel -- Chapter Fourteen. The Baroque and the Neobaroque -- Chapter Fifteen. Baroque Cosmology: Kepler -- Chapter Sixteen. The Rule of Anthropophagy: Europe under the Sign of Devoration -- Chapter Seventeen. Góngora in Spanish American Poetry, Góngora in Luso-Brazilian Poetry: Critical Parallels -- Chapter Eighteen. Sor Juana and Luis de Góngora: The Poetics of Imitatio -- Chapter Nineteen. American Baroque Histories and Geographies from Sigüenza y Góngora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezama -- Chapter Twenty. Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal -- Chapter Twenty-one. Baroque Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New France -- Chapter Twenty-two. The Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican Identities -- Chapter Twenty-three. From the Baroque to the Neobaroque -- Chapter Twenty-four. The Baroque at the Twilight of Modernity -- Chapter Twenty-five. The Novel as Tragedy: William Faulkner -- Chapter Twenty-six. Góngora’s and Lezama’s Appetites -- Chapter Twenty-seven. Europe and Latin America in José Lezama Lima -- Chapter Twenty-eight. Seeking a Cuba of the Self: Baroque Dialogues between José Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevens -- Chapter Twenty-nine. Concerning a Baroque Abroad in the World -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index