Modern death in Irish and Latin American literature /
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Author / Creator: | Bender, Jacob, author. |
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Imprint: | Cham, Switzerlad : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020] |
Description: | 1 online resource ( xii, 240 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12454742 |
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 Beauty Is Born': William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection.- 10. Revenants of the Dispossessed: A Momentary Conclusion.