From Amazons to Zombies - Monsters in Latin America

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, and the meaning of monsters in texts that have molded social and political discourse in Latin America since the Conquest.

About the author

Persephone Braham is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico (2004), and she has edited an interdisciplinary volume, African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States (2014). She has written extensively on monsters and the monstrous in the Hispanic world.

Product details

• Authors: Persephone Braham
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611487084
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-708-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin Amer; Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature & Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory; Bucknell Studies in Latin Amer
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies