Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic

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.

• Foreword Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American GothicSection 1: Doubling the SelfChapter 1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro Páramo: Rhetorical Figures Evidencing the DoubleChapter 2. Scalding Drops on a Naked Eye: The Motif of the Double in Seeing Red by Lina Meruane 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 Chapter 4. Monstrous/Wondrous Transformations of The Female Body: Daniela Tarazona’s El animal sobre la piedra and The Gothic Chapter 5. Carlos Fuentes’s The Queen Doll and The Transgressive Presence of The Past Section 2: Animals as DoublesChapter 6. Maize, Coyotes and Fireflies: Transformation and Nagualism in Hombres de MaízChapter 7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gastão Cruls and Murilo Rubião Chapter 8. Gothic Tradition and Social Divide in Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this World Section 3. Doubles and SpacesChapter 9. Uncanny Aztec Revenants in Mexican FictionChapter 10. From Sierva María to María Mandinga: A Possible Female Gothic Transmutation in García Márquez’s Del amor y otros demonios Chapter 11. Doubles, Spectres, and Community Trauma: Collapse, Repetition, and Horror in the Mexican Earthquakes of 9/19 Section 4. The Double in FilmChapter 12. Civilization and Barbarism: Argentina and the Monster Within in Horror FilmsChapter 13. Reinventing the Hybrid: Del Toro’s Cronos as All-Too-Human Gothic HorrorContributorsIndex

Alcalá González and Bussing’s new collection is a timely exploration of the value of the double to Latin America. It is also a great example of what non-Anglophone cultures can teach more traditional academia about the global reach and significance of Gothic tropes. --Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University