Persephone Braham

From Amazons to Zombies

Monsters in Latin America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, theories, and genres of the monstrous (the fantastic, the grotesque, the marvelous, the gothic, horror, abjection, hybridity), and the meaning of monsters in texts that have molded social and political discourse in Latin America since the Conquest.

Produktdetails

• Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781611487060
• ISBN-10: 1611487064
• Artikelnr.: 43483108

Autorenporträt

By Persephone Braham

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Making Monsters 1. The Immanence of Monsters: From Iberia to
the New World 2. Anthropology, Anthropophagy, and Amazons 3. Beautiful
Deformities: The Mermaid Metaphor 4. Pseudoscience and Psychobiology: The
simuladores del talento 5. Vampires in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
6. The Caribbean Zombie Gothic 7. Epilogue: Ghosts, Globalization, and
Monster Movies Bibliography