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Women's Agency and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeVirgilis, Megan.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This volume explores the relationship between women and the Gothic in Spain and the Americas through transhispanic and feminist interpretive frameworks. It examines how women writers have engaged and reimagined the Gothic to challenge patriarchal norms and oppressive laws within the frameworks of bourgeois capitalism and neoliberalism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Figures
- Editors and contributors
- The editors
- The contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Moving beyond the female Gothic to center women's agency over time
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Part I: Gothic beginnings: women and the nineteenth century
- Chapter 1: At the margin of the margins: women reading Gothic in early-nineteenth-century Spain
- Chapter 2: Torres y Quiroga's gothic fiction: destabilizing nineteenth-century Argentine nation-building narratives through violence on women
- Talking corpses
- A ghost haunting the nation
- Spectrality and (dis)possession
- The pathology of domestic space
- Conclusions
- Chapter 3: Marital rape in a transatlantic gothic context: Juana Manuela Gorriti's "Una visita infernal" (1867) and Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Vampiro" (1901)
- Introduction
- Marital rape in historical and ideological context
- Juana Manuela Gorriti's "Una visita infernal" (1867)
- Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Vampiro" (1901)
- Part II: Gothic herstories: capitalism, debt, and alternative ways of knowing
- Chapter 4: Indebted life, gothic mothers: a new Puerto Rican genealogy in the short stories of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro
- "The Eyes of the Moon"
- "Midwives"
- "Coup de Grace"
- Conclusions: towards a new Puerto Rican genealogy
- Chapter 5: Latin American folk horror and ecofeminism: the short stories of Mónica Ojeda and Mariana Enriquez
- Mónica Ojeda's Andean Gothic in "The Flying Women," "Flying Head," and "Clotted Blood"
- Folklore and bodily deformation in Mariana Enriquez's "The Dirty Kid," "Things We Lost in the Fire," and "Under the Black Water"
- Bibliography.
- Chapter 6: Social horror and women's subversion in Mayra Montero's gothic narratives
- Deployments of "Globalgothic" and Afro-spirituality
- Afro-spiritual means, awakening to become
- Zombified specters
- Tormented stories of communitarian lives
- Alternative epistemes towards dark (hi)stories
- Cartographies of living and dead beings
- Part III: (Dis)located fears: genetics, breeding, and monstrosity
- Chapter 7: Fungal fears and botanical horrors: the ecogothic home in Mexican Gothic
- The haunting of High Place
- Patterns in nature and fiction
- Ensnaring patterns
- The dark embrace of fungi
- Escaping patterns
- Conclusions: degothicizing fungi
- Chapter 8: Gothic tales of motherhood: cultural anxieties in Schweblin and Rossi
- Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream)
- "Abel"
- Chapter 9: Porous matter and anthropophagy in Concha Alós's short stories
- Alós's Gothic stories
- Transcorporeal porosity, edible matter
- Teratological, animal agencies
- Feminist Gothic metamorphosis
- Part IV: Hybrid narratives in twenty-first-century Gothic
- Chapter 10: Haunted houses in gothic storytelling: In the Dream House (2019) by Carmen Maria Machado and "Biography" (2023) by María Fernanda Ampuero
- Haunted houses
- In the Dream House
- "Biography"
- Chapter 11: The feminine Gothic in the micro-stories of Patricia Esteban Erlés: rewriting of the folk tale and exploration of the feminine paradigm
- Patricia Esteban Erlés and the female Gothic
- Patriarchal oppression or "Arsenic Green"
- The rewriting of Little Red Riding Hood
- Chapter 12: A tale of ecogothic multihauntings: mourning and nurturing in Ethel Frost y el susurro del bosque (2020) by Victoria Francés
- Victoria Francés and her affection for the natural world
- "Lumen Naturae" and the ecogothic
- Ethel Frost, the familiar spirit, and her past lives
- Aching and grieving: crossing the veil
- Haunted and haunting: the path to the witch and the forest
- Unsettling encounters: the coven
- The familiar bonds of Ethel Frost: a divine lineage
- Conclusions: unhaunted/rebirth
- Chapter 13: Domestic violence and the female Gothic in Spain: a visual/poetic approach to Bibiana Collado Cabrera's Violencia, Sara Morante's Flor fané, and Sara Mesa's La familia
- Violencia (Violence, 2020), a book of poems by Bibiana Collado Cabrera
- The illustrated novel Flor fané (Wilted Flower, 2021), by Sara Morante
- The novel La familia (2022), by Sara Mesa
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-7671-8
- 1-5261-7673-4
- OCLC:
- 1585502230
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