Hispanic Baroques
Reading Cultures in Context
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo
The essays focus on the Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an understanding of Hispanic cultures during the last several hundred years.
Hispanic Baroques, available from Vanderbilt University Press
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises
Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo
Part I. The Baroque and Its Dark Sides
Chapter 1
On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque
Fernando R. de la Flor
Chapter 2
Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque
Hernán Vidal
Part II. Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival
Chapter 3
Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds
William Egginton
Chapter 4
Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque: Quevedo and Gracián
Fernando Ordóñez
Chapter 5
Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition
David R. Castillo
Part III. Institutions of Subjectivities in Baroque Spain
Chapter 6
From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: An Other Point of View in the Auto Sacramental
Bradley J. Nelson
Chapter 7
The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literary Field
Carlos M. Gutiérrez
Chaoter 8
Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque: Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella
Nieves Romero-Díaz
Part IV. Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context
Chapter 9
Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque: Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes
Silvia B Suárez
Chapter 10
Freedom and Containment in Colonial Theology: Sor Juana’s Carta atenagórica
Paola Marín
Chapter 11
Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts, and Walking Skulls: Criollo’s Subjectivity in Antonio dela Calancha and Bartolomé Arzans de Orsúa y Vela
Leonardo García-Pabón
Part V. The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings
Chapter 12
Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity
Mabel Moraña
Afterword
Redressing the Baroque
Edward H. Friedman