Hispanic Baroques--Contents Introduction: The Baroque and the Cultures of Crises Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo ix PART I The Baroque and Its Dark Sides 1 On the Notion of a Melancholic Baroque Fernando R. de la Flor 3 2 Aesthetic Categories as Empire Administration Imperatives: The Case of the Baroque Hernan Vidal 20 PART II Baroque Anxieties and Strategies of Survival 3 Of Baroque Holes and Baroque Folds William Egginton 55 4 Models of Subjectivity in the Spanish Baroque: Quevedo and Gracian Fernando Ordonez 72 5 Horror (Vacui): The Baroque Condition David R. Castillo 87 PART III Institutions and Subjectivities in Baroque Spain 6 From Hieroglyphic Presence to Representational Sign: An Other Point of View in the Auto Sacramental Bradley J. Nelson 107 7 The Challenges of Freedom: Social Reflexivity in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literary Field Carlos M. Gutierrez 137 8 Revisiting the Culture of the Baroque: Nobility, City, and Post-Cervantine Novella Nieves Romero-Díaz 162 PART IV Strategies of Identity in the Colonial Context 9 Perspectives on Mestizaje in the Early Baroque: Inca Garcilaso and Cervantes Silvia B. Suarez 187 10 Freedom and Containment in Colonial Theology: Sor Juana Ines Carta atenagórica Paola Marín 205 11 Sleeping with Corpses, Eating Hearts, and Walking Skulls: Criollo's Subjectivity in Antonio de la Calancha and Bartolome Arzans de Orsua y Vela Leonardo García-Pabón 222 PART V The Baroque and Its Transgressive Recyclings 12 Baroque/Neobaroque/Ultrabaroque: Disruptive Readings of Modernity Mabel Morana 241 Afterword: Redressing the Baroque Edward H. Friedman 283 Contributors 307 Index 311.