"Baroque New Worlds" traces the changing nature of Baroque representation in Europe and the Americas across four centuries, from its seventeenth-century origins as a Catholic and monarchical aesthetic and ideology to its contemporary function as a postcolonial ideology aimed at disrupting entrenched power structures and perceptual categories. Baroque forms are exuberant, ample, dynamic, and porous, and in the regions colonized by Catholic Europe, the Baroque was itself eventually colonized. In the New World, its transplants immediately began to reflect the cultural perspectives and...

How does Chicano/a studies reconceptualize North American studies? Why do borders and borderlands figure so prominently in Chicano/a narrative and criticism? Rewriting North American Borders in Chicano and Chicana Narrative discusses three aspects of the Mexican American experience: the history of native origins in the borderlands, the (im)migrant experience, and the Chicana experience. They all produce narratives derived from the U.S.-Mexico border in its physical, political, psychological, and imaginative dimensions, and each (re)writes a distinct cultural poetics of that key site. A...

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 Bolano, Alejo...