ART, LITERATURE OF THE ‘COUNTERCONQUEST’
EXPLORED BY UH PROFESSOR
When Oprah’s Book Club wanted an expert on magical realism
to illuminate Gabriel García Márquez’s “One
Hundred Years of Solitude,” they looked no further than the
University of Houston’s Lois Parkinson Zamora, professor of
comparative literature and art history.
Zamora contributed a pair of short essays on García Márquez
to Oprah’s Web site, and she’ll soon discuss this writer
and others during a reception celebrating her new book “The
Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction”
(University of Chicago Press). This public is invited to this free
event that starts at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, at Brazos Bookstore.
The author will present her remarks at 4:45 p.m..
“The Inordinate Eye” describes how Baroque art and
architecture, which thrived in Latin America between the early 17th
century and the last quarter of the 18th century, evolved from a
European “instrument of colonization and conversion”
to what 20th century Latin American writers came to see as “the
art of the counterconquest” – an art that colonized
peoples applied to their own cultural purposes.
“Compared to its European counterpart, the New World Baroque
is crazier, it’s funnier, it’s wittier, it’s less
correct doctrinally speaking, because this was a form of expression
that reflected the diversity of cultures in the New World,”
Zamora said.
For more information on “The Inordinate Eye,” visit
http://www.class.uh.edu/FacultyPublications/
Publications.aspx?BookID=5.
WHAT: |
“The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and
Latin American Fiction” |
WHEN: |
4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 3. Author’s remarks begin at 4:45
p.m., followed by refreshments. |
WHERE: |
Brazos Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet
Houston, TX 77005
www.brazos.booksense.com
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WHO: |
Lois Parkinson Zamora, Brazos Bookstore |
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