Writing Monsters: Essays on Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Ed. Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini
Introduction
Reading Monsters in Iberian and Spanish American Contexts
Adriana Gordillo and Nicholas Spadaccini
Part 1: Monster of Modernity, or (New)born Monster
1. Monstrous Births: Authority and Biology in Early Modern Spain
José P. Barragán and Luis Martín-Estudillo
2. What Kind of Monster Are You, Galatea?
Julio Baena
3. Zayas Unchained: A Perverse God, or Theological Kitsch?
Brad Nelson
4. Monstrous Maneuvers and Maneuvering the Monstrous in Two of Sor Juana's Dialogic Romances
Bonnie Gasior
Part 2: Monstrosity, Violence, and Resistance
5. Occupying the Isle, or Which Monster—and Which Island—Are We Talking About?
José Antonio Giménez Micó
6. Monstrosity and Social Violence: Challenges to Our Perception of Evil in Roberto Bolaño's Estrella Distante
Carlos Vargas-Salgado
7. Threatening Masculine Images of Power: María Lionza and Juan Vicente Gómez as Vampire in Arturo Uslar Pietri's Oficio de difuntos
Julio Quintero
8. Vampires in Balún Canán: The Monstrous and the Dzulum
Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga
Part 3: Monstering Humanity
9. Monsters for the Age of the Post-Human
David Castillo
10. Monstrous Birth: The Evolving Neighbor in Albert Sánchez Piñol's La pell freda
William Viestenz
11. Controlling Contagion: The Threat of the Madman From Outer Space
Megan Corbin
Afterword
One Critic's Monster...
Edward H. Friedman
Cover Image
The Tempest by William Hogarth