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Carpentier's Baroque Fiction : Returning Medusa's Gaze, Hardcover by Wakefie...
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- 9781855661073
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer LTD
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Number of Pages
- 228 Pages
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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 cronicas que el novelista cubano escribio sobre la arquitectura barroca -- tanto le impresiono esta a Carpentier durante su estancia en Espana en la Guerra Civil que se convirtio en fuente de inspiracion constante de su obra posterior. Se investigan cuidadosamente los origenes del estilo barroco carpenteriano, visibles ademas en el ambiente de epoca creado en las ficciones historicas de Carpentier mediante descripciones de artes visuales y escenarios arquitectonicos, y por medio de una parodia del estilo del Siglo de Oro espanol. La 'mirada de Medusa' se emplea en este estudio como metafora del 'poder petrificante' del barroco, el cual funciona como simbolo de la dominacion europea. En su obra Carpentier usa este simbolo como si fuera un arma de doble filo en un acto de desafio postcolonial, asi permitiendo una reafirmacion de la cultura de America Latina, al mismo tiempo que poniendo los cimientos del Boom de la novela latinoamericana de los anos 60. STEVE WAKEFIELD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
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Boydell & Brewer LTD
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9781855661073
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Book Title
Carpentier's Baroque Fiction: Returning Medusa's Gaze
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2004
Number of Pages
228 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
156mm
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2633-7061
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Monografias a
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United Kingdom
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