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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Novelist Isabel Cañas delivers gothic horror with a twist
Description: We're marking Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos with a conversation with Mexican American author Isabel Cañas. She employs gothic frameworks and tropes with historical detail in her novels—a combination as terrifying as it is informative. In this podcast, we discuss her books The Hacienda which is frightening haunted house mystery set in Mexico soon after its War of Independence and Vampires of El Norte set in northern Mexico (now south Texas) during the Mexican American war. Cañas discusses the racial and ethnic disparities, the rigid class structures, and the gender dynamics at work in both of thes...