Session Details
Thursday, 06 January
88. Latin American Neobaroque and the Illogic of Rupture
3:30–4:45 p.m., 406A, LA Convention Center
A special session
Presiding: Monika Kaup, Univ. of Washington, Seattle; Lois Parkinson Zamora, Univ. of Houston
1. “The Lezama Lima Centennial and Its Aftermaths: On Mainstreaming the Neobaroque as Global Critical Theory,” César Augusto Salgado, Univ. of Texas, Austin
2. “Staging Baroque, Staging Religion: The Neobaroque Basilica of Nossa Senhora do Brasil,” Jens Baumgarten, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
3. “Faults in the Neobaroque: Carlos Fuentes’s Cambio de piel and the Risks of Collapse,” John A. Ochoa, Penn State Univ., University Park
4. “Avatar, the Neobaroque, and the Seduction of the Senses,” Angela Ndalianis, Univ. of Melbourne