The inordinate eye

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"The Inordinate Eye traces the Baroque from a European colonizing instrument encoding Catholic and monarchical ideologies to a New World instrument of resistance to those same structures. Lois Parkinson Zamora shows that in the early decades of the twentieth century Latin American writers began to recuperate the hybrid forms of New World Baroque art and architecture for the purpose of creating a discourse of "counterconquest"--That is, a discourse of postcolonial self-definition aimed at disrupting entrenched power structures, perceptual categories, and literary forms."--Jacket.

subjects: Art, Latin American,  Latin American literature,  Latin American Art,  Arts, Baroque,  Baroque Arts,  Hybridity (Social sciences) and the arts,  Art, baroque,  Cultural fusion and the arts,  18.33 Spanish-American literature,  20.54 American art,  Barock,  Spanish,  Fiction,  Arts,  Baroque,  Hybridity (culture),  History and criticism,  Latin American fiction,  Lateinamerika

Places: Latin America