Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction: Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Persistence of the Gothic

Inés Ordiz and Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno

Section I: (Re)Visions of History

1. Civilization and Barbarism and Zombies: Argentina’s Contemporary Gothic

Inés Ordiz

2. Rural Horrors in Chilean Gothic

Olga Ries

3. Fragmented Gothic Identities in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo

Antonio Alcalá González

Section II: Displacement, Transposition, Tropicalization

4. Machado de Assis’s Nightmarish World: Displacements of the Gothic in Brazil

Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos

5. Duplicitous Vampires Annihilating Tradition and Destroying Beauty in Froylán Turcios’s El vampiro

Carmen Serrano

6. Liberation and the Gothic in Carlos Solórzano’s Las manos de Dios

David Dalton

7. Gothic in the Tropics: Transformations of the Gothic in the Colombian Hot Lands

Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez

Section III: Occupation and Incarceration

8. "I’ll Be Back": The United States’s Occupation of Puerto Rico and the Gothic

Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno

9. Marie Vieux Chauvet’s World-Gothic: Commodity Frontiers, "Cheap Natures" and the Monstrous-Feminine

Kerstin Oloff

10. Casa Por Cárcel: Incarcerating Homes in Costa Rican Life and Fiction

Ilse Bussing

Section IV: Science, Technology, and the Uncanny

11. Shadows of Science in the Río de la Plata Turn-of-the-Century Gothic

Soledad Quereilhac

12. Aura, "Constancia," and "Sleeping Beauty": Carlos Fuentes’s Little History on Photography

Adriana Gordillo

13. Media, Shadows, and Spiritual Bindings: Tracing Mexican Gothic in Óscar Urrutia Lazo’s Rito terminal

Enrique Ajuria Ibarra

Section V: Contemporary Gothic Paradigms

14. The Vampiric Tradition in Peruvian Literature: A Long Journey from Modernist Conventions to Gothic Postmodernism Ruptures

Rosa María Díez Cobo

15. Cultural Cannibalism: Gothic Parody in the Cinema of Ivan Cardoso

Daniel Serravalle de Sá

16. Pedro Cabiya’s Caribbean Grotesque

Persephone Braham

17. Towards a Darker Reality: The Post-Gothic Simulacrum in Edmundo Paz Soldán’s Los vivos y los muertos

Sergio Fernández Martínez

Index

About the Author

Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Binghamton University-State University of New York, USA.

Inés Ordiz is a PhD Student and Teaching Associate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Washington, USA.