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, and the meaning of monsters in texts that have molded social and political discourse in Latin America since the Conquest.
Brief description: Persephone Braham is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Crimes Against the State, Crimes Against Persons: Detective Fiction in Cuba and Mexico (2004), and she has edited an interdisciplinary volume, African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States (2014). She has written extensively on monsters and the monstrous in the Hispanic world.
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