Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	At the Book Fair
	Blood Relations
	Death in English
	Of What Is yet to Come (Chapter Summaries)
	Since the Book Fair
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands
	At the Supermarket
	SPECTRE and Coco
	Disputed Histories
	The Labyrinth of Solitude
	On the Carnivalesque
	Borderlands
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Graveyard Communities: The Speech of the Dead in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille
	Graveyard Novels
	The Dead Economy of Pedro Páramo
	Beyond Dis(inter)gration
	The Economics of Cré na Cille
	Trump of the Graveyard
	Festival as a New Community
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: “For You Galaxies Will Burn and Stars Will Flame”: The Speech of the Dying in Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies and Carlos Fuentes’s The Death of Artemio Cruz
	The Peripheral Center
	Malone Dying
	The Unnamable
	Nothing Is More Real Than Nothing
	Druid Remains
	The Death of Artemio Cruz
	“For You Galaxies Will Flame and the Sun Will Burn”
	Bigger Than Galaxies
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: “Upon All the Living and the Dead”: James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Their Infinite Ghosts
	Irish Diaspora in Argentina
	Postcolonial Joyce and Borges
	Totalization as Totalitarianism
	In the Garden of Forking Paths
	“Upon All the Living and The Dead”
	Infinite Ghosts
	The Mirror and the Mask
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: Interlude: “There’ll Be Scary Ghost Stories”—English Ghosts of Christmas Past
	Christmas Ghost Stories
	From Hamlet to Holden
	G.K. Chesterton’s Christmas Carol
	The Nightmare Before Christmas
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Swift and the Dead: Gulliver’s Séance in W.B. Yeats’s “The Words Upon the Window-pane,” Flann O’Brien’s The Dalkey Archive, and Gabriel García Márquez’s The General in His Labyrinth
	Gulliver’s Séance
	An Empire by Any Other Name
	The Words Upon the Window-Pane
	The Dalkey Archive
	The General in His Labyrinth
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: Under My Vodou: Haiti, Revolution, and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World and Brian Moore’s No Other Life
	Under My Vodou
	Rise of the Zombies
	An Anti-Cartesian Vodou
	A Tale of Two Metamorphoses
	Ti Noël’s Character
	An Aesthetics of Escape
	A Christmas Carnival
	No Other Life
	Father Paul’s Character
	An Aesthetics of Transformation
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: A Terrible Beauty Is Born: William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection
	The Last Romantics
	Parallel Histories
	Important Differences
	Poem Summaries
	Living Wilderness
	Rebellious Spirits
	Fluid Waters
	Easter Resurrection
	El grito de Lares
	A Terrible Beauty Is [Still]born
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Revenants of the Dispossessed: A Momentary Conclusion
	Bibliography
Index