Espectros: Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives - Paperback

by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas (Editor), Amanda L. Petersen (Editor), María del Carmen Caña Jiménez (Contribution by)

Espectros is a collection of original scholarly studies on contemporary literature and film in Spanish and by authors of Latin American descent. Contributors contemplate ghosts, haunting, the spectral, and absence as central motifs in narratives that deal with the aftermath of collective or individual trauma.

Author Biography

Alberto Ribas-Casasayas is assistant professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Santa Clara University. Amanda L. Petersen is associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures and affiliated faculty for the Latin American Studies and Gender Studies programs at the University of San Diego.