Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

The Americas
Redaktion: Edwards, Justin D.; Vasconcelos, Sandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the Gothic in literature, film, and culture in the tropical and sub-tropical 'South' of the Americas, moving between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina) alongside regional manifestations (the US south and the Caribbean) and transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. It reads the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Rethinking how new conceptions of regional forms of Gothic emerge in the Americas, the book engages a range of fields to explore the 'transnational South' in the Americas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317425779
• Artikelnr.: 44755213

Autorenporträt

Justin D. Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Surrey, UK. Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Justin D. Edwards and Sandra G. T. Vasconcelos. Section I:
Tropical Undead 1. Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas Justin D Edwards
2. The Zombie Tropocalypse: Entropic (Digital) Disaster in the Hot Zone
Rune Graulund 3. 'The Head-Quarters of Death': Nineteenth-Century New
Orleans as Gothic Nexus Owen Robinson 4. A 'litany seeking a text': The
Specter of Conjure in the Sub-tropical Southern Gothic Elizabeth Rodriguez
Fielder 5. 'They are not Men, Monsieur... They are zombies...': The
Construction of Haitian Identity and the Work of the Left Hand Kelly
Gardner 6. Consuming the Tropics: The Tropical Zombie Re-eviscerated in
Dead Island Johan Höglund Section II: Tropical Chills 7. Environmental
Apocalypse and Uncanny Technology: Gothic Visions of the Future in Three
Mexican Literary Dystopias Inés Ordiz Alonso-Collada 8. Gothic
Re-Constructions: Mayan Ruins and Tourist Horror in The Ruins Enrique
Ajuria Ibarra 9. Maps, History and Cooking: Laura Esquivel's Mexico David
Punter 10. 'I want to escape these walls, but I can't exist outside them':
Spaces and Characters in Carlos Fuentes's Gothic Fiction Antonio Alcalá
11. Casas Tomadas: Haunting and Homes in Latin American Stories Ilse
Büssing Section III: Social and Political Landscapes of the Tropical Gothic
12. Sepulchral Beauty in Brazilian Romanticism Cilaine Alves Cunha 13.
Tropical Gothic: José de Alencar and the Foundation of the Brazilian Novel
Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos 14. Difference and Subversion: Gothic
Migrations in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Novels Rita Terezinha
Schmidt 15. The Strange Case of Brazilian Gothic Cinema Daniel Serravalle
de Sá. Contributors. Index.