Reviews of Books

Abstract

The contribution of this volume goes beyond the fields of Latin American literature and culture for it provides not only new ways of understanding representations of the Gothic in Latin American cultural production but also complements studies of the 'globalgothic' as theorised by Glennis Byron, Fred Botting and Justin D. Edwards in Globalgothic in 2013. More generally, the collection, which is divided thematically into five sections and includes a total of seventeen chapters, provides a treasure-trove of readings of the Gothic: where else would readers be able to encounter duplicitous vampires in Guatemalan literature (Chapter 5), tropicalized vampires in Colombian horror films (Chapter 7), or English vampires in Peruvian novellas (Chapter 14)? The whole panoply of monsters and familiar gothic tropes examined here are 'very much rooted in local realities and histories, and often linked to different processes of modernization' ( 7) across all regions of Latin America (Mexico,