Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture /Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno

AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Persistence of the GothicInes Ordiz and Sandra Casanova-VizcainoSection I: (Re)Visions of History1. Civilization and Barbarism and Zombies: Argentina's Contemporary GothicInes Ordiz2. Rural Horrors in Chilean GothicOlga Ries3. Fragmented Gothic Identities in Juan Rulfo's Pedro ParamoAntonio Alcala GonzalezSection II: Displacement, Transposition, Tropicalization4. Machado de Assis's Nightmarish World: Displacements of the Gothic in BrazilSandra Guardini Vasconcelos5. Duplicitous Vampires Annihilating Tradition and Destroying Beauty in Froylan Turcios's El vampiroCarmen Serrano6. Liberation and the Gothic in Carlos Solorzano's Las manos de DiosDavid Dalton7. Gothic in the Tropics: Transformations of the Gothic in the Colombian Hot LandsGabriel Eljaiek-RodriguezSection III: Occupation and Incarceration8. "I'll Be Back": The United States's Occupation of Puerto Rico and the GothicSandra Casanova-Vizcaino9. Marie Vieux Chauvet's World-Gothic: Commodity Frontiers, "Cheap Natures" and the Monstrous-FeminineKerstin Oloff10. Casa Por Carcel: Incarcerating Homes in Costa Rican Life and FictionIlse BussingSection IV: Science, Technology, and the Uncanny11. Shadows of Science in the Rio de la Plata Turn-of-the-Century GothicSoledad Quereilhac 12. Aura, "Constancia," and "Sleeping Beauty": Carlos Fuentes's Little History on PhotographyAdriana Gordillo13. Media, Shadows, and Spiritual Bindings: Tracing Mexican Gothic in Oscar Urrutia Lazo's Rito terminalEnrique Ajuria IbarraSection V: Contemporary Gothic Paradigms14. The Vampiric Tradition in Peruvian Literature: A Long Journey from Modernist Conventions to Gothic Postmodernism RupturesRosa Maria Diez Cobo15. Cultural Cannibalism: Gothic Parody in the Cinema of Ivan CardosoDaniel Serravalle de Sa16. Pedro Cabiya's Caribbean GrotesquePersephone Braham17. Towards a Darker Reality: The Post-Gothic Simulacrum in Edmundo Paz Soldan's Los vivos y los muertosSergio Fernandez MartinezIndex