Latin American Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction that draws on Gothic themes and aesthetics and adapts them to the political and geographical specificities of Latin America. Although its roots can be traced to twentieth-century Latin American literature and cinema, it was only in the first decades of the twenty-first century that it gained particular prominence as a literary current.
Facts
Place of Origin Notable ExampleThings We Lost in the Fire 1 Defining TraitNarrative transculturation that renders both foreign and local elements alien 1 In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Latin American Gothic - Wikipedia
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adapts them to the political and geographical specificities of Latin America
Contemporary figures
Things We Lost in the Fire (2016), which became a bestseller
Characteristics
the narrative transculturation exercised in its Latin American variety doubles the stakes by rendering both foreign and local elements alien
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