Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothicthe double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous religions/Catholic). Despite this duplicity and at the same time because of it, this region has also generated mestizaje, or forms resulting from racial mixing and hybridity. This collection, then, aims to contribute to the current discussion about the Gothic in Latin America by examining the doubles and hybrid forms that result from the violent yet culturally fertile process of colonization that took place in the area.
Foreword
Introduction: Doubles and Other Transmutations in Latin American Gothic
Section 1: Doubling the Self
Chapter 1. Ghostly Mirrors in Pedro P?ramo: Rhetorical Figures Evidencing the Double
Chapter 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 Carters Lady in the House of Love
Chapter 4. Monstrous/Wondrous Transformations of The Female Body: Daniela Tarazonas El animal sobre la piedra and The Gothic
Chapter 5. Carlos Fuentess The Queen Doll and The Transgressive Presence of The Past
Section 2: Animals as Doubles
Chapter 6. Maize, Coyotes and Fireflies: Transformation and Nagualism in Hombres de Ma?z
Chapter 7. Mirrors and Shapeshifters: The Double in Gast?o Cruls and Murilo Rubi?o
Chapter 8. Gothic Tradition and Social Divide in Alel3J
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