Author : Jacob L. Bender
Release : 2020-09-22
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 397/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature by : Jacob L. Bender
Download or read book Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature written by Jacob L. Bender. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.