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Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature
Jacob L. Bender
Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature
Jacob L. Bender Middlesex County College Edison, NJ, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-50938-5 ISBN 978-3-030-50939-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50939-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustrations © Carolin Voelker, Image ID: 1187225069 This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To my Mom Clare, may she rest in more than peace. And thy speech shall whisper out of the dust. -Isaiah 29:4
Acknowledgments
Special thanks for the guidance, mentoring, assistance, and/or support of Claire F. Fox, Loren Glass, Jennifer Buckley, Adriana Méndez Rodenas, Cheryl Herr, Marie Kruger, Ted Lyon, George Handley, Nuala Finnegan, the Society for Irish Latin American Studies, the editors and reviewers of Comparative Literature Studies and Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, the Guadalajara Reporter, the Puerto Rico San Juan mission, my family, friends, classmates, colleagues, students, and a whole host of other incredibly important people whom I have very likely missed and will feel terrible about forgetting to include in the morning.
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Contents
1 Introduction 1 At the Book Fair 1 Blood Relations 2 Death in English 5 Of What Is yet to Come (Chapter Summaries) 10 Since the Book Fair 14 Bibliography 15 2 The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands 17 At the Supermarket 17 SPECTRE and Coco 20 Disputed Histories 25 The Labyrinth of Solitude 33 On the Carnivalesque 35 Borderlands 4
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