Persephone Braham

From Amazons to Zombies (eBook, ePUB)

Monsters in Latin America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America-Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean-are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin America's most dynamic monsters can be traced to archetypes that are found in virtually all of the world's sacred traditions, but only in Latin America did Amazons, cannibals, zombies, and other monsters become enduring symbols of regional history, character, and identity. From Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, and theories and genres of the monstrous. It describes the genesis and evolution of monsters in the construction and representation of Latin America from the Ancient world and early modern Iberia to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611487077
• Artikelnr.: 44154937

Autorenporträt

Persephone Braham is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico (2004), and she has edited an interdisciplinary volume, African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States (2014). She has written extensively on monsters and the monstrous in the Hispanic world.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Making Monsters 1. The Immanence of Monsters: From Iberia to
the New World 2. Anthropology, Anthropophagy, and Amazons 3. Beautiful
Deformities: The Mermaid Metaphor 4. Pseudoscience and Psychobiology: The
simuladores del talento 5. Vampires in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
6. The Caribbean Zombie Gothic 7. Epilogue: Ghosts, Globalization, and
Monster Movies Bibliography