Carpentier's Baroque Fiction - Returning Medusa's Gaze (Hardcover, New)


This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spain before and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of the Baroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel.Este estudio versa sobre Alejo Carpentier, uno de los primeros novelistas en introducir el realismo mAgico y el neobarroco a la narrativa latinoamericana. Arroja nueva luz sobre las crA3nicas que el novelista cubano escribiA3 sobre la arquitectura barroca -- tanto le impresionA3 A(c)sta a Carpentier durante su estancia en EspaAa en la Guerra Civil que se convirtiA3 en fuente de inspiraciA3n constante de su obra posterior. Se investigan cuidadosamente los orA-genes del estilo barroco carpenteriano, visibles ademAs en el ambiente de A(c)poca creado en las ficciones histA3ricas de Carpentier mediante descripciones de artes visuales y escenarios arquitectA3nicos, y por medio de una parodia del estilo del Siglo de Oro espaAol. La 'mirada de Medusa' se emplea en este estudio comometAfora del 'poder petrificante' del barroco, el cual funciona como sA-mbolo de la dominaciA3n europea. En su obra Carpentier usa este sA-mbolo como si fuera un arma de doble filo en un acto de desafA-o postcolonial, asA- permitiendo una reafirmaciA3n de la cultura de AmA(c)rica Latina, al mismo tiempo que poniendo los cimientos del Boom de la novela latinoamericana de los aAos 60. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia

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This study focuses on one of the first novelists to introduce a version of magical realism and the neo-baroque into Latin American fiction. Original research colours eyewitness accounts of Alejo Carpentier's travels through Spain before and during the Spanish Civil War and the inspiration that he drew from the Baroque architecture he encountered there. The origins of Carpentier's uniquely 'baroque' style are found in his endeavour to create a period ambience in his historical fictions through descriptions of visual arts and architectural settings, and parodies of the literary style of Spanish Golden Age writers. 'Medusa's gaze' is used as a metaphor for the petrifying power of the Baroque as a weapon of European dominance. By wielding the same weapon in an act of postcolonial defiance, Carpentier enabled a reassertion of Latin American culture, and laid the foundations for the 1960s 'Boom' in the Latin American novel.Este estudio versa sobre Alejo Carpentier, uno de los primeros novelistas en introducir el realismo mAgico y el neobarroco a la narrativa latinoamericana. Arroja nueva luz sobre las crA3nicas que el novelista cubano escribiA3 sobre la arquitectura barroca -- tanto le impresionA3 A(c)sta a Carpentier durante su estancia en EspaAa en la Guerra Civil que se convirtiA3 en fuente de inspiraciA3n constante de su obra posterior. Se investigan cuidadosamente los orA-genes del estilo barroco carpenteriano, visibles ademAs en el ambiente de A(c)poca creado en las ficciones histA3ricas de Carpentier mediante descripciones de artes visuales y escenarios arquitectA3nicos, y por medio de una parodia del estilo del Siglo de Oro espaAol. La 'mirada de Medusa' se emplea en este estudio comometAfora del 'poder petrificante' del barroco, el cual funciona como sA-mbolo de la dominaciA3n europea. En su obra Carpentier usa este sA-mbolo como si fuera un arma de doble filo en un acto de desafA-o postcolonial, asA- permitiendo una reafirmaciA3n de la cultura de AmA(c)rica Latina, al mismo tiempo que poniendo los cimientos del Boom de la novela latinoamericana de los aAos 60. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia

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General

Imprint

Tamesis Books

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Monografias A

Release date

November 2004

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First published

November 2004

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Dimensions

234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover - Cloth over boards

Pages

228

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-1-85566-107-3

Barcode

9781855661073

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LSN

1-85566-107-1



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