Bibliograph

Tropical gothic in literature and culture, the Americas, edited by Justin D Edwards and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos

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Tropical gothic in literature and culture, the Americas, edited by Justin D Edwards and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Tropical gothic in literature and culture

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

edited by Justin D Edwards and Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos

Series statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, 60

Sub title

the Americas

Table Of Contents

Section I : Tropical undead. Mapping tropical Gothic in the Americas / Justin D. Edwards -- The zombie tropocalypse : entropic (digital) disaster in the hot zone / Rune Graulund -- 'The head-quarters of death' : early nineteenth-century New Orleans as Gothic nexus / Owen Robinson -- A 'litany seeking a text' : the specter of conjure in the sub-tropical Southern Gothic / Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder -- 'They are not men, Monsieur ... they are zombies ... ' : the construction of Haitian identity and the work of the left hand / Kelly Gardner -- Consuming the tropics : the tropical zombie re-eviscerated in Dead Island / Johan Hoglund -- -- Section II : Tropical chills. Environmental apocalypse and uncanny technology : Gothic visions of the future in three Mexican literary dystopias / Inez Ordiz Alonso-Collada -- Gothic re-constructions : Mayan ruins and tourist horror in The Ruins / Enrique Ajuria Ibarra -- Maps, history and cooking : Laura Esquivel's Mexico / David Punter -- 'I want to escape these walls, but I can't exist outside them' : spaces and characters in Carlos Fuentes's Gothic fiction / Antonio Alcala -- Casas tomadas : haunting and homes in Latin American stories / Ilse Bussing -- -- Section III. Social and political landscapes of the tropical Gothic. Sepulchral beauty in Brazilian romanticism / Cilaine Alves Cunha -- Tropical Gothic : Jose de Alencar and the foundation of the Brazilian novel / Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos -- Difference and subversion : Gothic migrations in nineteenth-century Latin American novels / Rita Terezinha Schmidt -- The strange case of Brazilian Gothic cinema / Daniel Serravalle de Sa

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