Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030509385)

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.

Author: Jacob L. Bender
ISBN-10: 3030509389
ISBN-13: 9783030509385
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/23/2020
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d