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This chapter offers an overview of Latin American and Caribbean gothic literature of the past thirty years, focusing particularly on the figures of the cannibal, the zombie, and the vampire. The chapter also discusses one of the directions that contemporary Gothic is taking in the region: the conscious appropriation of global tropes to denounce local issues pertaining to past and present histories of sociopolitical and gendered violence. Our approach aims to underline the complexity and transnationality of Latin American and Caribbean gothic forms, as well as claiming their relevance in contemporary literature written in Spanish.
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Casanova-Vizcaíno, S., Ordiz, I. (2020). Latin American Horror. In: Bloom, C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_2
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