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Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic By Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez


Summary

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic-the double.

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic Summary

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

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.

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic Reviews

Alcala Gonzalez and Bussing's new collection is a timely exploration of the value of the double to Latin America. It is also a great example of what non-Anglophone cultures can teach more traditional academia about the global reach and significance of Gothic tropes. --Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University

About Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

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

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

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic

Section 1: Doubling the Self

Chapter 1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro Paramo: 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 Maiz

Chapter 7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gastao Cruls and Murilo Rubiao

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 Maria to Maria Mandinga: A Possible Female Gothic Transmutation in Garcia Marquez'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

Additional information

NLS9781032240299
9781032240299
1032240296
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-12-13
242
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