Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-40633-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic—the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous religions/Catholic). Despite this duplicity and at the same time because of it, this region has also generated "mestizaje," or forms resulting from racial mixing and hybridity. This collection, then, aims to contribute to the current discussion about the Gothic in Latin America by examining the doubles and hybrid forms that result from the violent yet culturally fertile process of colonization that took place in the area.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alcalá González, Antonio

Marie Bussing López, Ilse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic

Section 1: Doubling the Self

Chapter 1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro Páramo: Rhetorical Figures Evidencing the Double

Chapter 2. Scalding Drops on a Naked Eye: The Motif of the Double in Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

Chapter 3. Knocking at the door of your prison house of history: Carlos Fuentes Aura and Angela Carter’s ‘Lady in the House of Love

Chapter 4. Monstrous/Wondrous Transformations of The Female Body: Daniela Tarazona’s El animal sobre la piedra and The Gothic

Chapter 5. Carlos Fuentes’s The Queen Doll and The Transgressive Presence of The Past

Section 2: Animals as Doubles

Chapter 6. Maize, Coyotes and Fireflies: Transformation and Nagualism in Hombres de Maíz

Chapter 7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gastão Cruls and Murilo Rubião

Chapter 8. Gothic Tradition and Social Divide in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World

Section 3. Doubles and Spaces

Chapter 9. Uncanny Aztec Revenants in Mexican Fiction

Chapter 10. From Sierva María to María Mandinga: A Possible Female Gothic Transmutation in García Márquez’s Del amor y otros demonios

Chapter 11. Doubles, Spectres, and Community Trauma: Collapse, Repetition, and Horror in the Mexican Earthquakes of 9/19

Section 4. The Double in Film

Chapter 12. Civilization and Barbarism: Argentina and the Monster Within in Horror Films

Chapter 13. Reinventing the Hybrid: Del Toro’s Cronos as All-Too-Human Gothic Horror

Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antonio Alcalá is a Chair of the Humanities Department and Literature Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City.

Ilse Marie Bussing López is a Professor of English Literature and a Professor in Gothic Literature in the Master’s in Literature at the University of Costa Rica.