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First paragraph: Modern Scottish writing in Scots has been characterised by two apparently contradictory impulses: an interest in direct and demotic utterance, and a move towards a degree of linguistic estrangement. In either case, the end result has been to destabilise the cultural and expressive hegemony of ‘standard English’ and to liberate a sense of linguistic and imaginative energy.

Despite its misleading and limiting equating of the distinct concepts of ‘genre’ and ‘media’, this book productively exploits the value and potential of ‘genre’ as an analytical category and as a site where aesthetic and social boundaries are performatively crossed, (re)negotatiated, reflected upon and questioned. In this respect, this volume’s greatest contribution is that it opens up the fields of Argentine Film and Theatre Studies to the social and the political precisely through hybridiza...

First paragraph: In his introduction to the influential Antologia de la literatura fantastica/The Book of Fantasy, Adolfo Bioy Casares defines The Castle of Otranto as representative of a tedious genre of castles, spider webs, storms, and bad taste. This judgement summarise the canonical view of the Gothic in Latin American criticism during the larger part of the twentieth century, a rejection that, in many cases, had more to do with terminology than with a dismissal of gothic forms. The Anto...

The online exposition “La habitación del desahogo/The Room of Relief” reinvents the legendary Mexican figure of La Llorona to put forward a poetic critique of the violent consequences of sexist inequality and gendered violence in Spanish-speaking countries. This chapter argues that this piece of transgressive artwork is a transcultural reinterpretation of the Mexican legend that, while maintaining some of the essential elements of the figure and addressing the relevance of the cultural commun...