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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.
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