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Visions of Transmerica

Neobaroque Strategies of Nomadic Transgression

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Authors:
  1. Krzysztof A. Kulawik

    1. History, World Languages and Cultures, Central Michigan University, Michigan, United States Minor Outlying Islands

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  • Integrates recent advances in Cultural, Feminist and Chican@ Border Identity Theory
  • Foregrounds the role of the Latin American Neobaroque in cultural hybridization and transculturation
  • Looks at a broad spectrum of Latin American Neobaroque works

Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Krzysztof A. Kulawik
    Pages 1-32

  3. Neobaroque as Transgression: The Latin American Paradigm

    • Krzysztof A. Kulawik
    Pages 33-124

  4. Subversions of Selfhood: Transgressive CharACTerS of the Neobaroque

    • Krzysztof A. Kulawik
    Pages 125-240

  5. One-T(w)o-Many: Neobaroque Articulations of Nomadic Identity

    • Krzysztof A. Kulawik
    Pages 241-351

  6. Conclusions: At the Crossroads of Nepantla

    • Krzysztof A. Kulawik
    Pages 353-372

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 373-388
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About this book

This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early 2000s in order to explore the cultural hybridization and transgressive identity transformations at play in these works. It shows how the ornamental style and boldly experimental techniques are an effective strategy in presenting decentered identities in sexually ambiguous, multiethnic, interracial, transcultural, and mutant characters, as well as in metafictional narrators and authors. In this way, the book demonstrates the potential of Neobaroque works to destabilize normative, essentialist and binary categories of identity. The study focuses on Latin America as a cultural macroregion, drawing on examples from a variety of countries, including Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and the US-Mexican border. Drawing on gender, queer, trans and Chicana feminist theory, it argues for an alternative approach to a model of the Self, or a theory of selfhood, derived from the exuberant style and experimental techniques of the Neobaroque.

Reviews

“Prof. Kris Kulawik’s Visions of Transamerica brilliantly interprets Neobaroque prose and art, plus the identity theories they represent. Clearly and cogently, Kulawik’s writing informs readers about how these works can increase tolerance by building a conceptual community. The tremendous creativity regarding identity in this literature and art becomes more comprehensible via the ideas of queer and gender identity. Essential reading.”

—Diane E. Marting, Professor of Spanish, University of Mississippi, USA

“Visions of Transamerica addresses Neobaroque ideology and aesthetics in a number of potential contexts: personal, social, cultural, political and sexual. Kulawik analyzes current transgressions of social norms to describe new forms of identity in fiction, theatre, film, and other modes of performance. He embeds these aesthetic practices in social contexts in order to show how artistic genres reflect “trans*” practices, and vice versa: how actual practices react totheir representation. Professor Kulawik’s focus is on Latin America, but his discussion is useful in all cultural and artistic contexts where new modes of identities are sought and desired.”

—Lois Parkinson Zamora, Moores Professor of English, University of Houston, USA

“Kulawik’s informed and insightful discussion of the neobaroque, gender, and the body broadens the understanding of performativity among artists and writers from the US borderlands and Latin America. As one of the few studies in English on the complex topic of destabilized gender identities, Kulawik’s study makes a significant contribution to the wider field of global gender studies.”

—M. Elizabeth Ginway, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Florida, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • History, World Languages and Cultures, Central Michigan University, Michigan, United States Minor Outlying Islands

    Krzysztof A. Kulawik

About the author

Krzysztof A. Kulawik is Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Literature and Culture at Central Michigan University, USA, and the author of Travestismo lingüístico: el enmascaramiento de la identidad sexual en la narrativa latinoamericana neobarroca [Linguistic Cross-Dressing: The Disguising of Sexual Identity in Latin American Neobaroque Narrative] (2009).

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