In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature,
film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque
within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As
"neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural
dynamics is overturning the traditional scholarship that confined the baroque to a specific period,
class, and ideology in the seventeenth century. Reflecting on the rich, nonlinear genealogy of
baroque expression, Neobaroque in the Americas envisions the baroque as an
anti-proprietary expression that brings together seemingly disparate writers and artists and
contributes to the new studies in global modernity.