This book explores the Gothic mode in the literature, visual arts, and culture of Latin America. Visiting texts from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays 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 US, also acknowledging the effects of "Globalgothic" on a transnational and transcultural level.…mehr
This book explores the Gothic mode in the literature, visual arts, and culture of Latin America. Visiting texts from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays 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 US, also acknowledging the effects of "Globalgothic" on a transnational and transcultural level.
Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Binghamton University-State University of New York, USA. Inés Ordiz is a PhD Student and Teaching Associate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Washington, USA.
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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
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
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