List of Contributors

Introduction by Alexander Torres, PhD, and Pablo Baisotti, PhD

1. Death in Latin American literature. A balance between the sacred and the profane by Pablo Baisotti

2. Religion and Light in Mexican Literature by Rebecca Janzen, University of South Carolina

3. The Ritual of Violence and the Sacred in Os sertoes and Bacurau by M. Elizabeth Ginway, University of Florida

4. Heeding the Animal: Traces of the Sacred in the Narrative of Ana Paula Maiaby Monica Velasquez Guzman

5. Maria Sabina’s Prayer: The Sacred and Religious Syncretism by Herlinda Flores-Badillo

6. Mysticism and Ritual in Libro del sol (2000) by Josemari Recalde Rojas by Enrique Bernales Albites

7. The Persistence of the Sacred in the Contemporary Female Narrative of Formation: Four Texts by Giovanna Rivero by PATRICIA POBLETE ALDAY

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8. Metamorphoses of the Sacred and the Expressions of Violence in Clarice Lispector’s Novel The Passion According to G.H. by Rodica Grigore

9. New World Modernity and the Sacred in two Colombian Bildungsromane by Alexander Torres

10. Sacredness in the Andes: The Survival of the Wandering Jew in “La ultima erranza” (1947) by the Ecuadorian Joaquin Gallegos Lara (1909-1947)

11. Inside and outside the Sacred: (Re)Elaborations of African Practices and Myths in the Narrative of Lydia Cabrera by Margherita Cannavacciuolo

12. Asian religiosity in Latin American literature by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

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