The fantasy of globalism : the Latin American neo-baroque /
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| Author / Creator: | Waldron, John V., 1960- author. |
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| Imprint: | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014] ©2014 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404544 |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781306258951 1306258952 9780739177778 073917777X 9780739177761 0739177761 1498557252 9781498557252 |