02433nam 2200541 450 991081461790332120170919050752.01-61148-707-2(CKB)3710000000493635(EBL)4086701(SSID)ssj0001570291(PQKBManifestationID)16217894(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570291(PQKBWorkID)13069747(PQKB)11222962(MiAaPQ)EBC4086701(EXLCZ)99371000000049363520150827h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom Amazons to Zombies Monsters in Latin America /Persephone BrahamLanham, Maryland :Bucknell University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (217 p.)The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-61148-708-0 1-61148-706-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.Latin American literatureHistory and criticismMonsters in literatureLatin American literatureHistory and criticism.Monsters in literature.860.9/98Braham Persephone1631783MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814617903321From Amazons to Zombies3970570UNINA