1st Edition
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic
Foreword by Justin D. Edwards
Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic --Antonio Alcalá González and Ilse Bussing
Section 1: Doubling the Self
Chapter 1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro Páramo: Rhetorical Figures Evidencing the Double -- David Boza
Chapter 2. Scalding Drops on a Naked Eye: The Motif of the Double in Seeing Red by Lina Meruane – Aurora Piñeiro
Chapter 3. Knocking at the door of your prison house of history: Carlos Fuentes Aura and Angela Carter’s ‘Lady in the House of Love – Gina Wisker
Chapter 4. Monstrous/Wondrous Transformations of The Female Body: Daniela Tarazona’s El animal sobre la piedra and The Gothic – Inés Ordiz
Chapter 5. Carlos Fuentes’s The Queen Doll and The Transgressive Presence of The Past -- Antonio Alcalá González
Section 2: Animals as Doubles
Chapter 6. Maize, Coyotes and Fireflies: Transformation and Nagualism in Hombres de Maíz – Ilse Bussing
Chapter 7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gastão Cruls and Murilo Rubião – Vinicius Lucas de Souza
Chapter 8. Gothic Tradition and Social Divide in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World – Esteban Rojas
Section 3. Doubles and Spaces
Chapter 9. Uncanny Aztec Revenants in Mexican Fiction—Anna Reid
Chapter 10. From Sierva María to María Mandinga: A Possible Female Gothic Transmutation in García Márquez’s Del amor y otros demonios – Gilda Pacheco
Chapter 11. Doubles, Spectres, and Community Trauma: Collapse, Repetition, and Horror in the Mexican Earthquakes of 9/19 – Enrique Ajuria Ibarra
Section 4. The Double in Film
Chapter 12. Civilization and Barbarism: Argentina and the Monster Within in Horror Films – Fernando Pagoni
Chapter 13. Reinventing the Hybrid: Del Toro’s Cronos as All-Too-Human Gothic Horror—Christian Jimenez
Contributors
Index
Biography
Antonio Alcalá is a Chair of the Humanities Department and Literature Professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
Ilse Marie Bussing López is a Professor of English Literature and a Professor in Gothic Literature in the Master’s in Literature at the University of Costa Rica.
