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Neobaroque in the Americas: Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film Monika Kaup. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Monika Kaup's Neobaroque in the Americas might initially appear to fall under those all too common critical analysis studies that are present in the current age of academia, where the critic uses a catchall term to engage with all manners of subject, from "T.S. Eliot... [to] Chicano lowrider art... [and] anti-dictatorship literature and film from Chile and Argentina" (1). Yet, Kaup's book attempts to create a new reading of a diverse group of subjects, which all fall under the header of neo baroque. The term "Baroque" first appeared as a pejorative term to describe nonclassical art and architecture in the seventeenth century (3). "Neobaroque" is the term used to fixate the Baroque period in the present and is seen as a refusal "to regard culture as fixed" (3). Neobaroque is a mode of thought that rebels against...