Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup, eds.

Illustrations xi

Acknowledgments xiii

"Baroque, New World Baroque, Neobaroque: Categories and Concepts" / Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup 1

Part One: Representation: Foundational Essays on Baroque Aesthetics and Ideology

The European Baroque

1. "On the Baroque" (1878) / Friedrich Nietzsche 44

2. Excerpt from the Introduction to Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of Style in Later Art (1915) / Heinrich Wolfflin 49

3. Excerpts from The Origin of German Tragic Drama (1928) / Walter Benjamin 59

4. Excerpt from Lo barroco, "The Debate on the Baroque in Pontigny" (1935) / Eugenio d'Ors 78

5. Excerpts from "The Concept of Baroque in Literary Scholarship" (1945, rev. 1962) / Rene Wellek 95

6. "Baroque in England" (1960) / Mario Praz 119

7. Chapter 2 from La folie du voir, "The Work of the Gaze" (1986) / Christine Buci-Glucksmann 140

The New World and the Neobaroque

8. Excerpt from "Savoring Gonjora" (1928) / Alfonso Reyes 165

9. Chapter 1 from Redescrubrimiento de América en el arte, "America's Relation to Europe in the Arts" (1936) / Angel Guido 183

10. "The Baroque in America" (1940) / Pedro Henriquez Urena 200

11. Chapter 2 from La expresion americana, "Baroque Curiosity" / Jose Lezama Lima 212

12. "The City of Columns" (1964) / Alejo Carpentier 244

13. Excerpt from "Questions Concerning the Contemporary Latin American Novel" (1964) / Alejo Carpentier 259

14. "The Baroque and the Neobaroque" (1972) / Severo Sarduy 270

15. Chapter 3 from Barroco, "Baroque Cosmology: Kepler" (1974) / Severo Sarduy 292

16. "The Rule of Anthropophagy: Europe under the Sign of Devoration" (1981) / Harolde de Campos 319

Part Two. Transculturation

Colonial Practice

17. "Gongora in Spanish American Poetry, Gongora in Luso-Brazilian Poetry: Critical Parallels" / Jorge Ruedas de la Serna 343

18. "Sor Juana and Luis de Gongora: The Poetics of Imitatio" (2006) / Jose Pascual Buxo 352

19. "American Baroque Histories and Geographies from Siguenza y Gongora and Balbuena to Balboa, Carpentier, and Lezama" / Timothy J. Reiss 394

20. "Baroque Quixote: New World Writing and the Collapse of the Heroic Ideal" / William Childers 415

21. "Baroque Self-Fashioning in Seventeenth-Century New France" / Dorothy Z. Baker 450

22. "The Fold of Difference: Performing Baroque and Neobaroque Mexican Identities" / Leo Cabranes-Grant 467

Part Three. Counterconquest

Postcolonial Positions

23. Chapter 2 from Ensayo de contraconquista, "From the Baroque to the Neobaroque" (2001) / Gonzalo Celorio 487

24. Chapter 1 from Barroco y modernidad, "The Baroque at the Twilight of Modernity" (2000) / Irlemar Chiampi 508

25. "The Novel as Tragedy: William Faulkner" (1970) / Carlos Fuentes 531

26. "Gongora's and Lezama's Appetites" (1978) / Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria 554

27. "Europe and Latin America in Jose Lezama Lima" / Maarten van Delden 571

28. "Seeking a Cuba of the Self: Baroque Dialogues between Jose Lezama Lima and Wallace Stevens" / Christopher Winks 597

29. Chapter from Poetics of Relation, "Concerning a Baroque Abroad in the New World" (1990) / Edouard Glissant 624

Bibliography 627

Contributors 645

Index 651