Gulf Gothic: Mexico, the U.S. South and La Llorona's Undead Voices - Paperback

by Dolores Flores-Silva (Author), Keith Cartwright (Author)

Gulf Gothic examines haunted, secret-laden narratives that emerge from the gulfs between peoples all along the Gulf of Mexico and on both sides of the Rio Grande. The Gulf is presented as a unified region and as dynamic ground zero of North American (and global) cross-culturality and traumas.

Author Biography

Dolores Flores-Silva is a professor of Latin American literature and culture at Roanoke College and the author of The Cross and the Sword in the Works of Rosario Ferré and Mayra Montero (2009).

Keith Cartwright is chair of the Department of English at the University of North Florida and the author of Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways (2013) and Reading Africa into American Literature (2002).