Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothicthe double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous religions/Catholic). Despite this duplicity and at the same time because of it, this region has also generated "mestizaje," or forms resulting from racial mixing and hybridity. This collection, then, aims to contribute to the current discussion about the Gothic in Latin America by examining the doubles and hybrid forms that result from the violent yet culturally fertile process of colonization that took place in the area.
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothicthe double.
Recenzijos
Alcalį Gonzįlez and Bussings new collection is a timely exploration of the value of the double to Latin America. It is also a great example of what non-Anglophone cultures can teach more traditional academia about the global reach and significance of Gothic tropes. --Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University
Foreword
Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic
Section 1: Doubling the Self
Chapter
1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro Pįramo: 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 Carters Lady in the House of Love
Chapter
4. Monstrous/Wondrous Transformations of The Female Body: Daniela
Tarazonas El animal sobre la piedra and The Gothic
Chapter
5. Carlos Fuentess 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 Maķz
Chapter
7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gastćo Cruls and Murilo
Rubićo
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 Marķa to Marķa Mandinga: A Possible Female Gothic
Transmutation in Garcķa Mįrquezs 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 Toros Cronos as All-Too-Human Gothic
Horror
Contributors
Index
Antonio Alcalį 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 Masters in Literature at the University of Costa Rica.
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