LEADER 02433nam 2200541 450 001 9910797607303321 005 20170919050752.0 010 $a1-61148-707-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000493635 035 $a(EBL)4086701 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001570291 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16217894 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001570291 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13069747 035 $a(PQKB)11222962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4086701 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000493635 100 $a20150827h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom Amazons to Zombies $eMonsters in Latin America /$fPersephone Braham 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cBucknell University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aThe Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61148-708-0 311 $a1-61148-706-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aFrom Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, theories, and genres of the monstrous (the fantastic, the grotesque, the marvelous, the gothic, horror, abjection, hybridity), and the meaning of monsters in texts that have molded social and political discourse in Latin America since the Conquest. 410 0$aBucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. 606 $aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMonsters in literature 615 0$aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMonsters in literature. 676 $a860.9/98 700 $aBraham$b Persephone$01507441 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797607303321 996 $aFrom Amazons to Zombies$93738198 997 $aUNINA