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From Amazons to zombies : Monsters in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braham, Persephone (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press : copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
Series:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Subjects:
Latin American literature > History and criticism.
Monsters in literature.
Latin American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.