| The Fantasy of Globalism: The Latin American Neo-Baroque Contributor(s): Waldron, John V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739177761 ISBN-13: 9780739177761 Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism - Political Science | Globalization |
| Dewey: 860.998 |
| LCCN: 2013041444 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
