And now available:

The Inordinate Eye, New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction

The Inordinate Eye contemplates the exuberance ofseventeenth and eighteenth Baroque art and architecture in Latin America, the better to understand twentieth century fiction by Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, and Elena Garro, among others. This study also involves twentieth-century art and artists, among them Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

The book was written by Lois Parkinson Zamora, who was probably the best lit teacher I had at UH. (Unsurprisingly, she did her PhD in Comparative Literature at UC-Berkeley)