Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora: From the Americas to the World

by John Ochoa (Editor), Monika Kaup (Editor), Antonio Barrenechea (Contribution by), Anna Brickhouse (Contribution by), Priscilla Archibald (Contribution by)

Overview

Honoring the lifework of the comparative literature scholar, From the Americas to the World: Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora traces artistic and cultural pathways that connect Latin American literature and culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. The essays in this collection cover three critical fields: comparative hemispheric American literature, magical realism, and the Baroque/New World Baroque/Neobaroque. Beginning with a critical reassessment of hemispheric American studies, these essays analyze the works of a wide array of writers, such as Roberto Bolaño, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Waldo Frank, and José Lez. These chapters build upon the legacy of the scholarship done by Dr. Zamora and exemplify the pattern of literary studies that she has driven forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781793636683
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	08/22/2023
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.11(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Monika Kaup is professor of English at the University of Washington.

John Ochoa is associate professor of Spanish at Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Monika Kaup and John Ochoa

PART I: INTERAMERICANISMS

Chapter 1: A Hemispheric World of Differences: Literature of the Americas, 1982-2020

Antonio Barrenechea

Chapter 2: Mistranslation and Catastrophe”

Anna Brickhouse

Chapter 3: Transamerican Friendships and American Utopias: José Carlos Mariátegui, Waldo Frank, and Victoria Ocampo

Priscilla Archibald

Chapter 4: Dark Meadows of Gnosis: Robert Duncan and José Lezama Lima’s Interamerican Mythopoetics

Christopher Winks

PART II: BAROQUES

Chapter 5: La Santa Muerte: Necroaesthetics and the Folk Baroque

Silvia Spitta

Chapter 6: Carpentier’s Concierto barroco: Transoceanic Picaresques and Revolution, or All that Glitters Is Not Gold

John Ochoa

Chapter 7: Breaking the Circle of Perfection”: Baroque Form from Johannes Kepler to Isabelle Stengers

Monika Kaup

PART III: LATIN AMERICA IN THE WORLD

Chapter 8: Magical Realism’s Synecdoche

Stephen M. Hart

Chapter 9: Epistemology of the Ineffable: Octavio Paz and India

Wendy Faris

Chapter 10: Alchemist of the Tropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Gabriel García Márquez’s Cien años de soledad

Ralph Bauer

Afterword

Djelal Kadir

Editorial Reviews

The essays that make up this collection are of a generally high calibre, as befits the occasion. [The] range and quality of its contents attest to the warmth and respect felt towards Professor Parkinson Zamora in the scholarly community at large.

Bulletin of Spanish Studies

Exploring with brio and precision Parkinson Zamora’s fields of expertise, the essays in this volume provide a worthy and well-deserved tribute to her eminent career as one of the leading comparatists of her generation.

Gustavo Pérez Firmat

These beautifully written and profoundly erudite essays, combining political astuteness with literary discernment, historical depth with contemporary resonance, and love of detail with breadth of vision, are a fitting tribute to Lois Parkinson Zamora’s path-breaking scholarship. The authors of this collection map out new itineraries for Hemispheric Studies and the study of Latin American literature from a comparative perspective, and in the process offer hope for the future of the field. Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora is cause for celebration.

Maarten van Delden

Exploring with brio and precision Parkinson Zamora’s fields of expertise, the essays in this volume provide a worthy and well-deserved tribute to her eminent career as one of the leading comparatists of her generation.

Gustavo Pérez Firmat