Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands

Chapter 3 Graveyard Communities: The Speech of the Dead in Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo and Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille

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

Chapter 5 “Upon All the Living and the Dead”: James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Their Infinite Ghosts

Chapter 6 Interlude: “There’ll Be Scary Ghost Stories”—English Ghosts of Christmas Past

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

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

Chapter 9 A Terrible Beauty Is Born: William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection