Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-50938-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various anti-colonial projects. In contrast to the ghosts and revenants that haunt English and Anglo-American letters—where they are largely either monstrous horrors or illusory frauds—the dead in these Irish/Latinx archives can serve as potential allies, repositories of historical grievances, recorders of silenced voices, and disruptors of neocolonial discourse.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Jacob L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands.- 3. Graveyard Communities: The Speech of the Dead in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Maírtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.- 4. “For You Galaxies Will Burn and Stars Will Flame”: The Speech of the Dying in Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies and Carlos Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz.- 5. “Upon All the Living and the Dead”: James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Their Infinite Ghosts.- 6. Interlude - “There’ll be Scary Ghost Stories”: English Ghosts of Christmas Past.- 7. The Swift and the Dead: Gulliver’s Séance in W.B. Yeats’s “The Words Upon the Window-pane”, Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive, and Gabriel García Márquez’s The General In His Labyrinth.- 8. Under My Vodou: Haiti and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World and Brian Moore’s No Other Life.- 9. “A Terrible BeautyIs Born”: William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection.- 10. Revenants of the Dispossessed: A Momentary Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob L. Bender is Professor of English at Middlesex County College, New Jersey, USA.