Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature
Jacob L. Bender, "Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature"
English | ISBN: 3030509389 | 2020 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 916 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3030509389 | 2020 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 916 KB + 2 MB
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.