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From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America
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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin America’s most dynamic monsters can be traced to archetypes that are found in virtually all of the world's sacred traditions, but only in Latin America did Amazons, cannibals, zombies, and other monsters become enduring symbols of regional history, character, and identity. From Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, and theories and genres of the monstrous. It describes the genesis and evolution of monsters in the construction and representation of Latin America from the Ancient world and early modern Iberia to the present.
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“Persephone Braham (2015, 9) describes monsters as 'arbiters of order and disorder within a given social or cultural system,' arguing that the monster was a key trope in the repeated convergence of cultures, ideologies, and people that characterize the history of Latin America.”
From I Monster: Embodying Trans and Travesti Resistance in Latin America (2020) · cites this paper as Braham 2015
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I Monster: Embodying Trans and Travesti Resistance in Latin America
Pierce, J. M. (2020) · Latin American Research Review · doi:10.25222/larr.563 · Cited by 42
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- Authors
- Braham, P.
- Corresponding author
- Braham, Persephone
- ORCID
- Braham, Persephone
- Published
- 2015
- OpenAlex
- W4410669631
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1
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- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Latin American Literature Analysis
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Keywords
- monsters, monstrosity, Latin American identity, Amazonian mythology, cannibalism, zombies, sacred traditions, regional naming, representation of Latin America, degeneration, Latin American history
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