CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS vii
4. CONTRIBUTORS ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES – THE FIRST PROVERBIAL TRANSATLANTIC ZOO
7. 1 The Transatlantic Bestiaries of Felipe Guamán Poma (Waman Puma), c. 1615 19
8. 2 Monsters, American Animals, and Mirabilia in Gerónimo de Huerta and his Translation of the Natural History (1624) 36
9. 3 (In)Human Nature: Discourses over the Distinctions between Man and Beast in the Indigenous-Language Christian Pedagogies of New Spain 51
10. 4 “La natural inclinación se olvida:” Animal Transformation in Cervantes 70
11. PART II TWENTIETH CENTURY – PROWLING FOR PATHWAYS TOWARD A NEW FUTURE
12. 5 Uncanny Urodeles: The Case of Julio Cortázar’s “Axolotl” 85
13. 6 Animal Skins/Human Souls: Figurations of the Jaguar in Contemporary Brazilian and Spanish American Literature 100
14. 7 Of Nahuals and Angels: Neoliberal Reinterpretations and Transnational Mythology in Édgar Clément’s Operación Bolívar 122
15. 8 “Fausto” and Marina: Cats, Sickness, and Twentieth-Century Spain 138
16. PART III: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY – IN THE BEAST’S CLOTHING
17. 9 Animal Adventures for Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s China Iron 157
18. 10 Colonizing Monsters and Decolonizing Beasts: The Case of Mariana Enríquez’s 176
19. 11 Forms of the Beast: The Figure of the Werewolf in Three Recent Mexican Novels 195
20. 12 Animal Metaphors and Gender Violence in Contemporary Spain: (Non)Fictional Narratives 210
21. INDEX 231