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Honoring the lifework of comparatist Lois Parkinson Zamora, this collection traces artistic pathways that connect Latin American culture to the Americas, and to the world beyond. Its essays range from canonical writers like Roberto Bolaño and Gabriel García Márquez to non-canonical forms such as contemporary developments of Mexican folk Baroque.
List of contents
Introduction
Monika Kaup and John Ochoa
PART I: INTERAMERICANISMS
Chapter 1: A Hemispheric World of Differences: Literature of the Americas, 1982-2020
Antonio Barrenechea
Chapter 2: Mistranslation and Catastrophe"
Anna Brickhouse
Chapter 3: Transamerican Friendships and American Utopias: José Carlos Mariátegui, Waldo Frank, and Victoria Ocampo
Priscilla Archibald
Chapter 4: Dark Meadows of Gnosis: Robert Duncan and José Lezama Lima's Interamerican Mythopoetics
Christopher Winks
PART II: BAROQUES
Chapter 5: La Santa Muerte: Necroaesthetics and the Folk Baroque
Silvia Spitta
Chapter 6: Carpentier's Concierto barroco: Transoceanic Picaresques and Revolution, or All that Glitters Is Not Gold
John Ochoa
Chapter 7: Breaking the Circle of Perfection": Baroque Form from Johannes Kepler to Isabelle Stengers
Monika Kaup
PART III: LATIN AMERICA IN THE WORLD
Chapter 8: Magical Realism's Synecdoche
Stephen M. Hart
Chapter 9: Epistemology of the Ineffable: Octavio Paz and India
Wendy Faris
Chapter 10: Alchemist of the Tropics: Alexander von Humboldt and Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad
Ralph Bauer
Afterword
Djelal Kadir
About the author
Edited by John Ochoa and Monika Kaup - Contributions by Antonio Barrenechea; Anna Brickhouse; Priscilla Archibald; Christopher Winks; Silvia Spitta; John Ochoa; Monika Kaup; Stephen M. Hart; Wendy Faris; Ralph Bauer and Djelal Kadir
