Preposterous baroque: body and temporality in Néstor Perlongher and Severo Sarduy

Abstract

This article examines how the baroque is theorized in texts written by Néstor Perlongher and Severo Sarduy during the global HIV crisis. I propose that by taking illness as a starting point, these writers develop the notion of the baroque as resistance –conceived as temporality and as a practice more than as an aesthetic–. Specifically, I focus on Néstor Perlongher´s proposal of a “transhistoric” baroque and on Sarduy’s notion of a “funeral” baroque.

Keywords

• barroco
• temporalidad
• hiv
• queer
• néstor perlongher
• severo sarduy