Overview

This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various anti-colonial projects. In contrast to the ghosts and revenants that haunt English and Anglo-American letters—where they are largely either monstrous horrors or illusory frauds—the dead in these Irish/Latinx archives can serve as potential allies, repositories of historical grievances, recorders of silenced voices, and disruptors of neocolonial discourse.

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Author:   Jacob L. Bender
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2020 ed.
Weight:   0.338kg
ISBN:  

9783030509415

ISBN 10:   3030509419
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands.- 3. Graveyard Communities: The Speech of the Dead in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Maírtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille.- 4. “For You Galaxies Will Burn and Stars Will Flame”: The Speech of the Dying in Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies and Carlos Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz.- 5. “Upon All the Living and the Dead”: James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Their Infinite Ghosts.- 6. Interlude - “There’ll be Scary Ghost Stories”: English Ghosts of Christmas Past.- 7. The Swift and the Dead: Gulliver’s Séance in W.B. Yeats’s “The Words Upon the Window-pane”, Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive, and Gabriel García Márquez’s The General In His Labyrinth.- 8. Under My Vodou: Haiti and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World and Brian Moore’s No Other Life.- 9. “A Terrible BeautyIs Born”: William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection.- 10. Revenants of the Dispossessed: A Momentary Conclusion.

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Jacob L. Bender is Professor of English at Middlesex County College, New Jersey, USA.

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