This book examines the Gothic in literature, film, and culture in the tropical and sub-tropical 'South' of the Americas, moving between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina) alongside regional manifestations (the US south and the Caribbean) and transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. It reads the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Rethinking how new conceptions of regional forms of Gothic emerge in the Americas, the book engages a range of fields to explore the 'transnational South' in the Americas.

Introduction Justin D. Edwards and Sandra G. T. Vasconcelos. Section I: Tropical Undead 1. Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas Justin D Edwards 2. The Zombie Tropocalypse: Entropic (Digital) Disaster in the Hot Zone Rune Graulund 3. 'The Head-Quarters of Death': Nineteenth-Century New Orleans as Gothic Nexus Owen Robinson 4. A 'litany seeking a text': The Specter of Conjure in the Sub-tropical Southern Gothic Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder 5. 'They are not Men, Monsieur... They are zombies...': The Construction of Haitian Identity and the Work of the Left Hand Kelly Gardner 6. Consuming the Tropics: The Tropical Zombie Re-eviscerated in Dead Island Johan Höglund Section II: Tropical Chills 7. Environmental Apocalypse and Uncanny Technology: Gothic Visions of the Future in Three Mexican Literary Dystopias Inés Ordiz Alonso-Collada 8. Gothic Re-Constructions: Mayan Ruins and Tourist Horror in The Ruins Enrique Ajuria Ibarra 9. Maps, History and Cooking: Laura Esquivel's Mexico David Punter 10. 'I want to escape these walls, but I can't exist outside them': Spaces and Characters in Carlos Fuentes's Gothic Fiction Antonio Alcalá 11. Casas Tomadas: Haunting and Homes in Latin American Stories Ilse Büssing Section III: Social and Political Landscapes of the Tropical Gothic 12. Sepulchral Beauty in Brazilian Romanticism Cilaine Alves Cunha 13. Tropical Gothic: José de Alencar and the Foundation of the Brazilian Novel Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos 14. Difference and Subversion: Gothic Migrations in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Novels Rita Terezinha Schmidt 15. The Strange Case of Brazilian Gothic Cinema Daniel Serravalle de Sá. Contributors. Index.

Justin D. Edwards is Professor of English at the University of Surrey, UK.

Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.