Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

1. Introduction. - 2. The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands. - 3. Graveyard Communities: The Speech of the Dead in Juan

Rulfo s
Pedro Páramo
and Maírtín Ó Cadhain s
Cré na Cille. -
4
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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. -
5. Upon All the Living and the Dead : James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Their Infinite Ghosts. - 6. Interlude - There ll be Scary Ghost Stories : English Ghosts of Christmas Past. - 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. -
8. Under My Vodou: Haiti and Zombie Transformation as Liberation in Alejo Carpentier s
The Kingdom of This World
and Brian Moore s
No Other Life. -
9. A Terrible BeautyIs Born : William Butler Yeats, Julia de Burgos, and Romantic Resurrection. - 10. Revenants of the Dispossessed: A Momentary Conclusion.