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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.
List of contents
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
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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.
