Writing in the End Times: Apocalyptic Imagination in the Hispanic World
Ed. David R. Castillo and Bradley J. Nelson
Introduction
The Poetics and Politics of Apocalyptic and Dystopian Discourses
David R. Castillo and Bradley J. Nelson
Part 1: Apocalyptic Rhetoric Then and Now
1. The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised! Baroque Lessons in Apocalypticism, Demagoguery, and Reality Literacy
David R. Castillo and William Egginton
2. Gonçalo Anes Bandarra: The Craft of Prophecy and the Literature of Apocalypse
Henry Berlin
3. World Time and Imperial Allegory in a Nahuatl Manuscript on the Final Judgment
Stephanie Schmidt
Part 2: Ghosts in the Apocalyptic Machine
4. Apocalyptic Stages: Lope de Vega’s El Nuevo Mundo and Cervantes’s La Numancia
Moisés R. Castillo
5. Necrophilic Empathy: An Urgent Reading of Miguel de Cervantes’s La Numancia
Bradley J. Nelson, Vivek Venkatesh, and Jason Wallin
6. Not These Bones: Apocalyptic Satire in Baroque Spain and the Cold War U.S.
William Childers
7. “Pero no masco vidrio”: Post-traumatic Subjectivities, Plasticity, and the Aesthetics of Memory
Ana Forcinito
Part 3: Apocalypse on a Loop, or, Apocalypse Forever
8. RECording the End Time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film
Elizabeth Scarlett
9. When One Apocalypse is Not Enough: Representations of the End Times in Spanish Cinema (1962-2017)
Carmen Moreno-Nuño
10. Colonialism and Resistance in Latin American Metal Music: Death as Experience and Strategy
Nelson Varas-Díaz, Eliut Rivera-Segarra, and Daniel Nevárez
11. Versa et Manduca: The Timing of Ends
Julio Baena
Afterword
Strategies of Writing and Reading; Or, The Tense of an Ending
Edward H. Friedman
Cover Image
The Four Horsemen from The Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer