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How did it happen that whole regions of Latin America—Amazonia, Patagonia, the Caribbean—are named for monstrous races of women warriors, big-footed giants and cannibals? Through history, monsters inhabit human imaginings of discovery and creation, and also degeneration, chaos, and death. Latin America’s most dynamic monsters can be traced to archetypes that are found in virtually all of the world's sacred traditions, but only in Latin America did Amazons, cannibals, zombies, and other monsters
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- Author
- Persephone Braham; Bucknell University Press
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated; Bucknell University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611487084
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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