Description: From Amazons to Zombies presents a comprehensive account of the qualities of monstrosity, the ways in which monsters function within and among cultures, theories, and genres of the monstrous (the fantastic, the grotesque, the marvelous, the gothic, horror, abjection, hybridity...
Brief description: Persephone Braham is Professor of Spanish and Latin American & Iberian Studies at the University of Delaware, USA. She is the author of the monograph From Amazons to Zombies: Monsters in Latin America (2015). Related articles include "Song of the Sirenas: Mermaids in Latin America and the Caribbean" in Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid (2018); "Listening to the Amazons" (Listening/Journal of Communication, Ethics, Religion, and Culture, 2017), "Pedro Cabiya's Caribbean Grotesque" in Latin American Gothic (2017); "Los vampiros, el cine, y el simulacro del dictador" in Nuevas aproximaciones al cine hispánico: Migraciones temporales, textuales y étnicas en el bicentenario de las independencias iberoamericanas (1810-2010) (2011); "Ghosts of Latin America" in The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters (2014), as well as the forthcoming "Galvanic Awakenings: The Caribbean Frankenstein" in Creolizing Frankenstein.
Review Quotes: "Braham's study is refreshing for an Anglophone audience fed on stories and images dictated by a relatively narrow canon. The variety of inhuman entities which people its pages and its historical survey of several centuries of Latin American writings and film sketches a diversity and flexibility to monsters, intimating a range of unperceived strangenesses shadowing diverse colonial encounters." --Folklore