This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the...
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This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of terror and horror. Through the analysis of global and local Gothic topics and themes, they evaluate the reality of a multifaceted territory marked by a shifting colonial and postcolonial relationship with Europe and the United States. The book asks questions such as: Is there such a thing as "Latin American Gothic" in the same sense that there is an "American Gothic" and "British Gothic"? What are the main elements that particularly characterize Latin American Gothic? How does Latin American Gothic function in the context of globalization? What do these elements represent in relation to specific national literatures? What is the relationship between the Gothic and the Postcolonial? What can Gothic criticism bring to the study of Latin American cultural manifestations and, conversely, what can these offer the Gothic? The analysis performed here reflects a body of criticism that understands the Gothic as a global phenomenon with specific manifestations in particular territories while also acknowledging the effects of "Globalgothic" on a transnational and transcultural level. Thus, the volume seeks to open new spaces and areas of scholarly research and academic discussion both regionally and globally with the presentation of a solid analysis of Latin American texts and other cultural phenomena which are manifestly related to the Gothic world.
Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Persistence of the Gothic; Inés Ordiz and Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno; Section I: (Re)Visions of History; 1. Civilization and Barbarism and Zombies: Argentina’s Contemporary Gothic; Inés Ordiz; 2. Rural Horrors in Chilean Gothic; Olga Ries; 3. Fragmented Gothic Identities in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo; Antonio Alcalá González; Section II: Displacement, Transposition, Tropicalization; 4. Machado de Assis’s Nightmarish World: Displacements of the Gothic in Brazil; Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos; 5. Duplicitous Vampires Annihilating Tradition and Destroying Beauty in Froylán Turcios’s El vampiro; Carmen Serrano; 6. Liberation and the Gothic in Carlos Solórzano’s Las manos de Dios; David Dalton; 7. Gothic in the Tropics: Transformations of the Gothic in the Colombian Hot Lands; Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez; Section III: Occupation and Incarceration; 8.-
"I’ll Be Back": The United States’s Occupation of Puerto Rico and the Gothic; Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno; 9. Marie Vieux Chauvet’s World-Gothic: Commodity Frontiers, "Cheap Natures" and the Monstrous-Feminine; Kerstin Oloff; 10. Casa Por Cárcel: Incarcerating Homes in Costa Rican Life and Fiction; Ilse Bussing; Section IV: Science, Technology, and the Uncanny; 11. Shadows of Science in the Río de la Plata Turn-of-the-Century Gothic; Soledad Quereilhac ; 12. Aura, "Constancia," and "Sleeping Beauty": Carlos Fuentes’s Little History on Photography; Adriana Gordillo; 13. Media, Shadows, and Spiritual Bindings: Tracing Mexican Gothic in Óscar Urrutia Lazo’s Rito terminal; Enrique Ajuria Ibarra; Section V: Contemporary Gothic Paradigms; 14. The Vampiric Tradition in Peruvian Literature: A Long Journey from Modernist Conventions to Gothic Postmodernism Ruptures; Rosa María Díez Cobo; 15.-
Cultural Cannibalism: Gothic Parody in the Cinema of Ivan Cardoso; Daniel Serravalle de Sá; 16. Pedro Cabiya’s Caribbean Grotesque; Persephone Braham; 17. Towards a Darker Reality: The Post-Gothic Simulacrum in Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Los vivos y los muertos; Sergio Fernández Martínez; Index;
