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Lois Parkinson Zamora

The Inordinate Eye

New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction

424 pages, 23 color plates, 85 halftones  7 x 10  © 2006

Cloth $49.00

ISBN: 9780226978567   Published September 2006

List of Illustrations

Preface: Coatlicue Transformed

Acknowledgments


Chapter 1

            Quetzalcóatl’s Mirror and Guadalupe’s Eye: Syncretism and Seeing


Chapter 2

            Prehispanic Codices, Murals, and Historical Display: Rivera, Garro, Galeano, and Ibargüengoitia


Chapter 3

            New World Baroque and the Dynamics of Displacement: Carpentier, de Nomé, Lezama Lima, and Sarduy


Chapter 4

            The Baroque Self: Kahlo and García Márquez


Chapter 5

            Borges’s Neobaroque Illusionism


Conclusion: Neobaroque Provocations


Notes

Bibliography
Index

Awards
  • Harry Levin Award
  • Glasscock Humanities Book Prize
  • Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize Honorable Mention
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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