The Fantasy of Globalism
The Latin American Neo-Baroque- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2013
Summary
For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my book is the perceived foreclosure of any alternatives to the capitalistic ideology that structures globalization. Even criticisms of globalization are bounded by its limits since the critical models they use cannot conceive of a space outside its homogenizing discourse. Against the final limits that shape most interpretations of globalization, I show how writers on the periphery of the globalizing north, through the development and deployment of neo-baroque imaginings, offer a different possibility to monological globalism. I show that the baroque has been a way of resisting and reconfiguring the colonial gaze in Latin America since the time of the first encounter to the present.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2013
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7391-7776-1
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7391-7777-8
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 177
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- 1 Globalization, the Neo-Baroque, and the Gaze No access Pages 1 - 28
- 2 El reino de este mundo and the Ghost of Haiti No access Pages 29 - 58
- 3 The National Symptom in Three Puerto Rican Authors No access Pages 59 - 96
- 4 An Interlude No access Pages 97 - 112
- 5 The Vanishing Real No access Pages 113 - 132
- 6 Engaging the Darkness in Mayra Montero’s Tú, la oscuridad No access Pages 133 - 158
- Works Cited No access Pages 159 - 166
- Index No access Pages 167 - 176
- About the Author No access Pages 177 - 177





