TY - BOOK AU - Cristina Santos AU - Adriana Spahr PY - 2006 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Defiant Deviance T2 - The Irreality of Reality in the Cultural Imaginary UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102052 N2 - 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.» KW - Hispanoamerika, Literatur, Das Übernatürliche, Geschichte 1900-2000, Latin American literature, Peninsular Spanish literature, Spanish film, Aufsatzsammlung, Brazilian literature, Photography LA - Spanish; Castilian ER -