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Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900

Blood Relations

Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900

Blood Relations

ByAbigail Lee Six
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2019
eBook Published 18 February 2019
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730683
Pages 238 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203730683
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Lee Six, A. (2019). Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203730683

Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories, Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between various strategies of characterization or blend different ones together. How much will they draw on conventions of the transnational corpus? Are their vampires to be local or foreign; alluring or repulsive; pitiable or pure evil, for instance? Decisions like these determine the messages texts carry and, when made by Spanish authors, may reveal aspects of their culture with striking candidness, perhaps because the fantasy premise seems to give the false sense of security that this is harmless escapism and, since metaphorical meaning is implicit, it is open to argument and, if necessary, denial.

Part I gives a chronological text-by-text appreciation of all the texts included in this volume, many of them little known even to Hispanists and few if any to non-Spanish Gothic scholars. It also provides a plot summary and brief background on the author of each. These entries are free-standing and designed to be consulted for reference or read together to give a sense of the evolution of the paradigm since 1900. Part II considers the corpus comparatively, first with regard to its relationship to folklore and religion and then contagion and transmission.

Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations will be of interest to Anglophone Gothic scholars who want to develop their knowledge of the Spanish dimension of the mode and to Hispanists who want to look at some canonical texts and authors from a new perspective but also gain an awareness of some interesting and decidedly non-canonical material.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
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part Part I|146 pages
Text-by-Text Analysis
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chapter 1|12 pages
Ramón del Valle-Inclán, “Satanás/Beatriz” [Satan/Beatriz] (1900–01) 1
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chapter 2|8 pages
Emilia Pardo Bazán, “Vampiro” [Vampire] (1901) 1
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chapter 3|8 pages
Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, “Una hora de amor” [One Hour of Love] (1913) and “El señor Cadáver y la señorita Vampiro” [Mr Cadaver and Miss Vampire] (1919)
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Carmen de Burgos, La mujer fría [The Cold Woman] (1922) 1
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chapter 5|6 pages
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, “El claro del bosque (historia de pesadilla)” [The Clearing in the Wood (Nightmare Story)] (1922)
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chapter 6|9 pages
Alfonso Sastre, “Las noches del Espíritu Santo” [The Holy Spirit Nights] (1964)
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chapter 7|5 pages
Juan G. Atienza, “Sangre fresca para el muerto” [Fresh Blood for the Dead Man] (1974)
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chapter 8|2 pages
Alfons Cervera, “Una historia de amor” [A Love Story] (1984)
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chapter 9|5 pages
Adelaida García Morales, La lógica del vampiro [The Logic of the Vampire] (1990)
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chapter 10|7 pages
Mercedes Abad, Sangre [Blood] (2000)
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chapter 11|5 pages
Javier García Sánchez, Ella, Drácula: Erzsébet Báthory [Her, Dracula: Erzsébet Báthory] (2005)
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chapter 12|4 pages
Clara Tahoces, Gothika (2008)
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chapter 13|4 pages
Santiago Exímeno, “Al caer la noche” [At Nightfall] (2008) 1
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chapter 14|4 pages
David Jasso, “Víctimas inocentes” [Innocent Victims] (2009) 1
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chapter 15|3 pages
Alfredo Álamo, “El hombre de la pala” [The Man with the Spade] (2010)
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chapter 16|3 pages
Elia Barceló, “La belle dame sans merci” (2010)
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chapter 17|6 pages
Nuria C. Botey, “Viviendo con el tío Roy” [Living with Uncle Roy] (2010) 1
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chapter 18|5 pages
Miguel Puente Molins, “Caries” [Tooth Decay] (2010)
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chapter 19|5 pages
Juan Ignacio Carrasco, Entre nosotros [Amongst Us] (2010)
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chapter 20|5 pages
José de la Rosa, Vampiro [Vampire] (2010)
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chapter 21|3 pages
Marc R. Soto, “Siempre en mi recuerdo” [Forever in my Memory] (2010)
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chapter 22|9 pages
José María Tamparillas, “El sabor de la buena tierra” [The Taste of Good Earth] (2010); “Sangre de mi sangre, carne de mi carne” [Blood of my Blood, Flesh of my Flesh] (2012); and “La vieja, muy vieja Betty” [Old, Very Old Betty] (2012)
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chapter 23|7 pages
Lorenzo Fernández Bueno, El vampiro de Silesia [The Silesia Vampire] (2013)
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chapter 24|4 pages
Carlos Molinero, Verano de miedo [Terrific/Terrifying Summer] (2014)
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chapter 25|7 pages
Gema del Prado Marugán, “Comer con los ojos” [Devouring Eyes] (2016) 1
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chapter 26|5 pages
Edgar Sega, “Los dos mundos de Lord Barrymore” [The Two Worlds of Lord Barrymore] (2016)
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part Part II|66 pages
Comparative Analysis
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chapter 27|25 pages
Folklore and Religion
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chapter 28|23 pages
Contagion and Transmission
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Conclusion
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