Gothic geoculture : nineteenth-century representations of Cuba in the transamerican imaginary /

"Examines the ways writers in Cuba and the United States represented the island as "gothic" between 1830 and 1890 through specific tropes of monstrosity, possession, infection, and corruptive hypersexuality, and how some writers coded Cuba as dangerous and destructive"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: García, Ivonne M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Colección:Global Latin/o Americas.
Temas:
1800-1899
Literature and society > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Gothic revival (Literature) > History and criticism.
Corruption > Cuba.
Littérature et société > Cuba > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature frénétique > Histoire et critique.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Corruption
Gothic revival (Literature)
Literature and society
Cuba > History > 1810-1899.
Cuba > Histoire > 1810-1899.
Cuba
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Halftitle; series; Titlepage; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Gothic Geocultures in the Transamerican Imaginary; CHAPTER 1 Corruptive Gothicscapes: William Cullen Bryant's Letters of a Traveller and Nathaniel Parker Willis's Health Trip to the Tropics; CHAPTER 2 Gothicized Souths: Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America and Louisa May Alcott's "Pauline's Passion and Punishment"; CHAPTER 3 Transgressive Hauntings: Sophia Peabody's Cuba Journal and Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: A Romance of Real Life in Cuba Fifty Years Ago
  • CHAPTER 4 Gothic Emplotments: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdés and The Story of Evangelina Cisneros, Told by HerselfCHAPTER 5 "Inside the Monster": José Martí's Decolonial Transamericanity; CONCLUSION Decolonizing the Gothic; Bibliography; Index; Series2

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