Defiant Deviance

This innovative study embarks, from a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, on redefining the «supernatural» as elements that fail to be framed as «natural» by their socio-cultural environment. The «supernatural» elements depicted in this study encompass such monstrous representations as witches, vampires, angels, virgins, apparitions, and other universally recognized reflections of human existence though not all «supernatural» representations are seen as «monstrous,» but as physical and psychological embodiments of common human experience. Contributors to this project represent a wide scope of literary genres and eras, as well as differing theoretical approaches, united by the common goal of defining the «irreality of reality.»

Autorentext

The Editors: Cristina Santos is Assistant Professor at Brock University in Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Toronto. Her main research area is contemporary Latin American women writers, with a hermeneutical approach to the representation of female sexuality. Her book Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Female Identity: Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa was published by Peter Lang in 2004. Adriana Spahr is Assistant Professor at Brock University in Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on political and cultural expressions in contemporary Latin American literature, and she is also the author of La sonrisa de la amargura (forthcoming).

Inhalt

Contents: Cristina Santos/Adriana Spahr: Introduction - Christina Santos/Adriana Spahr: Comentarios de Carmen Boullosa sobre algunos de sus personajes sobrenaturales - Olga Mendieta/Adriana Spahr: La fuerza curativa y el poder de las hierbas: Entrevista a Don Ruperto Araujo-Villar - Hugo De Marinis: Maravillas, portentos y magia en Cien años de soledad - Cristina Santos: Vampires and Witches and Werewolves...Oh My! - Olga Mendieta: Seres mitológicos guaraníes de ayer y de hoy - Maria João Dodman: «Diz-me o que comes e eu te direi quem és»: Food, Cannibalism and Identity in João Ubaldo Ribeiro's Viva o Povo Brasileiro - Esther Raventós-Pons: La obra de Juan Rulfo: un viaje al «Inframundo» - Carolina Ramos: The Animated Forest: Reflections on Galician Cultural Phenomenon - Adriana Spahr: El mundo sobrenatural en la obra de María Zayas y Sotomayor - Dominique Russell: What the Centre Cannot Hold: The Defiant Deviances of El día de la bestia - Adriana Spahr: Realidad fantástica o imaginación fecunda en «El desertor» de José María Merino.