Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context

by Nicholas Spadaccini, Luis Martín-Estudillo

Overview

Essays focus on Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an understanding of Hispanic cultures during the last several hundred years

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826514981
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	07/29/2005
Series:	Hispanic Issues , #31
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luis Martin-Estudillo, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Iowa, is Managing Editor of the Hispanic Issues series published by Vanderbilt.

Nicholas Spadaccini, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, is editor-in-chief of the Hispanic Issues series and Hispanic Issues Online.

Table of Contents

Hispanic Baroques--Contents

Introduction: The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises
Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo ix

PART I
The Baroque and Its Dark Sides

1 On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque
Fernando R. de la Flor 3

2 Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration
Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque
Hernan Vidal 20

PART II
Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival

3 Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds
William Egginton 55

4 Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque:
Quevedo and Gracian
Fernando Ordonez 72

5 Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition
David R. Castillo 87

PART III
Institutions and Subjectivities in Baroque Spain

6 From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational
Sign: An Other Point of View in the Auto Sacramental
Bradley J. Nelson 107

7 The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literary Field
Carlos M. Gutierrez 137

8 Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque:
Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella
Nieves Romero-Díaz 162

PART IV
Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context

9 Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque:
Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes
Silvia B. Suarez 187

10 Freedom and Containment in Colonial Theology:
Sor Juana Ines Carta atenagórica
Paola Marín 205

11 Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts,
and Walking Skulls: Criollo's Subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela
Leonardo García-Pabón 222

PART V
The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings

12 Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque:
Disruptive Readings of Modernity
Mabel Morana 241

Afterword: Redressing the Baroque
Edward H. Friedman 283

Contributors 307

Index 311