%0 Book %A Cristina Santos %A Adriana Spahr %D 2006 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %T Defiant Deviance %B The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural Imaginary %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102052 %X This innovative study embarks, from a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, on redefining the «supernatural» as elements that fail to be framed as «natural» by their socio-cultural environment. The «supernatural» elements depicted in this study encompass such monstrous representations as witches, vampires, angels, virgins, apparitions, and other universally recognized reflections of human existence – though not all «supernatural» representations are seen as «monstrous,» but as physical and psychological embodiments of common human experience. Contributors to this project represent a wide scope of literary genres and eras, as well as differing theoretical approaches, united by the common goal of defining the «irreality of reality.» %K Hispanoamerika, Literatur, Das Übernatürliche, Geschichte 1900-2000, Latin American literature, Peninsular Spanish literature, Spanish film, Aufsatzsammlung, Brazilian literature, Photography %G Spanish; Castilian