From Amazons to Zombies : Monsters in Latin America 9781611487077, 9781611487060

How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races o

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From Amazons to Zombies : Monsters in Latin America
9781611487077, 9781611487060

From movies to comics to graphic novels, monsters and their ilk tap into the terror that lurks in the darkest regions of

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“The guerrilla attitude is not so much that Latin America is ripe for revolution, but rather that it needs a revolution.

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“Not many readers will thank the author as he deserves, for he has told us more about ourselves than we perhaps wish to

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