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Fantasy of Globalism

The Latin American Neo-Baroque
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For many, the advent of globalization brought with it an end to the way that the world had been viewed previous to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among the many endings the one that most concerns my book is the perceived foreclosure of any alternatives to the capitalistic ideology that structures globalization. Even criticisms of globalization are bounded by its limits since the critical models they use cannot conceive of a space outside its homogenizing discourse. Against the final limits that shape most interpretations of globalization, I show how writers on the periphery of the globalizing north, through the development and deployment of neo-baroque imaginings, offer a different possibility to monological globalism. I show that the baroque has been a way of resisting and reconfiguring the colonial gaze in Latin America since the time of the first encounter to the present.
Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Globalization, the Neobaroque and the Gaze Chapter 2: El reino de este mundo and the Ghost of Haiti Chapter 3: The National Symptom in Three Puerto Rican Authors: Rene Marques, Ana Lydia Vega and Judith Ortiz Cofer Chapter 4: An Interlude: Magical Realism and Failed Incorporation Chapter 5: The Vanishing Real: Magical Realism's Political Swerve in Garcia Marquez's "La increible y triste historia de la candida Erendira y su abuela desalmada" Chapter 6: Engaging the Darkness in Mayra Montero's Tu, la oscuridad
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