Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature

Jacob L. Bender, PhD, is an English Professor at Middlesex County College, New Jersey, USA. He has previously published on Irish & Latin American letters in Comparative Literature Studies and Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. He has also lived in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

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. "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.