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
Introduction: The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises
Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martin-Estudillo
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PART I The Baroque and Its Dark Sides
1 On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque
Fernando R. de la Flor
3
(17)
2 Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque
Hernán Vidal
20
(35)
PART II Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival
3 Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds
William Egginton
55
(17)
4 Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque: Quevedo and Gracián
Fernando Ordóñez
72
(15)
5 Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition
David R. Castillo
87
(20)
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
(30)
7 The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literary Field
Carlos M. Gutiérrez
137
(25)
8 Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque: Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella
Nieves Romero-Diaz
162
(25)
PART IV Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context
9 Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque: Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes
Silvia B. Suárez
187
(18)
10 Freedom and Containment in Colonial Theology: Sor Juana's Carta atenagórica
Paola Marin
205
(17)
11 Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts, and Walking Skulls: Criollo's Subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and Bartolomé Arzans de Orsúa y Vela
Leonardo Garcia-Pabón
222
(19)
PART V The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings
12 Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity
Mabel Moraña
241
Afterword: Redressing the Baroque
Edward H. Friedman
283
(24)
Contributors
307
(4)
Index
311
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