Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic-the double.

List of contents

Foreword
Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic
Section 1: Doubling the Self
Chapter 1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro Páramo: Rhetorical Figures Evidencing the Double
Chapter 2. Scalding Drops on a Naked Eye: The Motif of the Double in Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
Chapter 3. Knocking at the door of your prison house of history: Carlos Fuentes Aura and Angela Carter’s ‘Lady in the House of Love
Chapter 4. Monstrous/Wondrous Transformations of The Female Body: Daniela Tarazona’s El animal sobre la piedra and The Gothic
Chapter 5. Carlos Fuentes’s The Queen Doll and The Transgressive Presence of The Past
Section 2: Animals as Doubles
Chapter 6. Maize, Coyotes and Fireflies: Transformation and Nagualism in Hombres de Maíz
Chapter 7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gastão Cruls and Murilo Rubião
Chapter 8. Gothic Tradition and Social Divide in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World
Section 3. Doubles and Spaces
Chapter 9. Uncanny Aztec Revenants in Mexican Fiction
Chapter 10. From Sierva María to María Mandinga: A Possible Female Gothic Transmutation in García Márquez’s Del amor y otros demonios
Chapter 11. Doubles, Spectres, and Community Trauma: Collapse, Repetition, and Horror in the Mexican Earthquakes of 9/19
Section 4. The Double in Film
Chapter 12. Civilization and Barbarism: Argentina and the Monster Within in Horror Films
Chapter 13. Reinventing the Hybrid: Del Toro’s Cronos as All-Too-Human Gothic Horror
Contributors
Index

About the author

Antonio Alcalá is a Chair of the Humanities Department and Literature Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
Ilse Marie Bussing López is a Professor of English Literature and a Professor in Gothic Literature in the Master’s in Literature at the University of Costa Rica.

Summary

Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic—the double.

Product details

• Authors: Antonio Marie Bussing Lopez Alcala Gonzalez
• Assisted by: Antonio Alcalá González (Editor), Ilse Marie Bussing López (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367406332
• ISBN: 978-0-367-40633-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Latin America, Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Spanish, Literary studies: general, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America