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From Amazons to Zombies : Monsters in Latin America / Persephone Braham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Braham, Persephone, author.
- Series:
- Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
- The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American literature--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Monsters in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The immanence of monsters: from Iberia to the New World
- Anthropology, anthropophagy, and Amazons
- Beautiful deformities: the mermaid metaphor
- Pseudoscience and psychobiology: the simuladores del talento
- Vampires in the age of mechanical reproduction
- The Caribbean zombie gothic
- Epilogue: Ghosts, globalization, and monster movies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61148-707-2
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