Neobaroque in the Americas

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.