Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9463002928 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 180
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Race in the Vampire Narrative unpacks the vampire through a collection of classroom ready original essays that explicitly connect this archetypal outsider to studies in race, ethnicity, and identity. Through essays about the first recorded vampire craze, television shows True Blood, and Being Human, movies like Blade: Trinity and Underworld, to the presentation of vampires of colour in romance novels, graphic novels, on stage and beyond, this text will open doorways to discussions about Otherness in any setting, serving as an alternative way to explore marginality through a framework that welcomes all students into the conversation.
Author: Amanda Hobson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9463007148 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 201
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Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes. The text offers classroom ready original essays that outline contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms using the lens of the vampire in order to examine the ways those roles are undone and reinforced through popular culture through a specific emphasis on cultural fears and anxieties about gender roles. The essays explore the presentations of gendered identities in a wide variety of sources including novels, films, graphic novels and more, focusing on wildly popular examples, such as The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, and Twilight, and also lesser known works, for instance, Byzantium and The Blood of the Vampire. The authors work to unravel the ties that bind gender to the body and the sociocultural institutions that shape our views of gendered norms and invite students of all levels to engage in interdisciplinary conversations about both theoretical and embodied constructions of gender. This text makes a fascinating accompanying text for many courses, such as first-year studies, literature, film, women’s and gender studies, sociology, popular culture or media studies, cultural studies, American studies or history. Ultimately this is a text for all fans of popular culture. “Hobson and Anyiwo chase the vampire through history and across literature, film, television, and stage, exploring this complexity and offering insightful and accessible analyses that will be enjoyed by students in popular culture, gender studies, and speculative fiction. This collection is not to be missed by those with an interest in feminist cultural studies – or the undead.” – Barbara Gurr, University of Connecticut “Hobson and Anyiwo push the boundaries of the scholarship as it has been written until now.” –Catherine Coker, Texas A&M University Amanda Hobson is Assistant Dean of Students and Director of the Women’s Resource Center at Indiana State University. U. Melissa Anyiwo is a Professor of Politics & History and Coordinator of African American Studies at Curry College in Massachusetts.
Author: Publisher: Queer Studies in Education ISBN: 9789004688872 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays demonstrating the intersections of queer, feminist, and critical race theories with the popular culture icon of the vampire, who is a figure consistently unravelling cultural norms particularly the stability of gender and sexuality categories.
Author: Brandon Massey Publisher: Dark Corner Publishing ISBN: 0991339622 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 509
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From Brandon Massey, award-winning author of Thunderland, comes a terrifying new novel about a town besieged by evil . . . and the one man who is determined to fight the darkness . . . When renowned author Richard Hunter dies in a boating accident, his son David travels to Mason's Corner, Mississippi, to find out more about the father he never really knew. At first, Mason's Corner seems friendly and unassuming-–the perfect small town. But after a newcomer moves into the old-–and supposedly haunted-–mansion on the hill, everything changes . . . People begin to disappear. Dogs viciously attack. And soon David discovers that the terror consuming this place has its roots in his own family tree . . . For something has risen in Mason's Corner. Something with bloody ties to the town's past. Something undead--and hungering for vengeance . . .
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004688889 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 185
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Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous texts. The editors argue, ultimately, the vampire is a queer icon, infinitely blurring the boundaries of identity and cultural norms and queering even the most seemingly stable notions, such as life, death, humanity, and monstrosity. The Vampire is the undead monarch of subtextual articulations of Otherness, especially queer behaviors and desires, offering explorations of the AIDS epidemic, the destabilization of ideas of fixed and stable sexuality, the search for community and chosen family, and the issues of individual and generational trauma. In current fictions, vampires are coming out of the coffin and the closet, identifying as openly queer and often created by queer writers, artists, and directors and bringing the subtext to the surface of the narrative. This volume seeks to create a dialogue about the impact and importance of the vampire on queer identity and queer theory and to answer the questions of why the vampire is such a compelling queer icon and what visions of vampires articulate about our ideas surrounding issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and desires.
Author: Uriah Derick D'Arcy Publisher: Leamington Books ISBN: 1914090063 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 83
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WARNING! Contains moderate bloody violence against slavers and plantation owners!This pioneer vampire tale from 1819 spills revenge-cold blood as its narrator leads us through high gothic terror to radical outrage on the subject of slavery, reaching a blood-soaked conclusion dripping with 'biting' polemic vilifying the bankers who caused the economic recession of that same year.An anti-capitalist horror fable from 200 years ago, The Black Vampyre vilified the worst financial predation the capitalist world would ever see, decades before Karl Marx ― the enslavement of Africans in the New World.One dead man said no! And this is his story.The Black Vampyre; A Legend of St. Domingo tells the affrighting tale of a slave who is resurrected as a vampire after being killed by his owner; the slave seeks revenge by stealing the owner's son and marrying the owner's wife. The anonymous writer D'Arcy sets the story against the conditions that led to the Haitian Revolution.First published in chapbook form in New York in 1819, this emancipatory tale from literary New York in the 1810s arguably dates the birth of horror as know it!This edition features a new introduction as well as extensive notes and a guide to literary allusions.
Author: T. Khair Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137272627 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 242
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Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today.
Author: Genesis A Drake Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 0
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This thesis seeks to examine ideas surrounding gender and race in Sheridan J. Le Fanu's Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula through a scientific lens in an attempt to parse out how these two authors imagine the legibility of femininity and race. Le Fanu focuses on an anxiety about the exclusion of men in female relationships. The novella's namesake, Carmilla, highlights the importance of men maintaining control over women to ensure they are not influenced by outside entities. Stoker goes a little further than Le Fanu and explicitly critiques any womanhood not traditional in behavior and more aligned with the idea of the New Woman. And Stoker critiques the movement of Count Dracula from Transylvania to England, writing the character with an array of stereotypes about non-English people hard to miss. Both of these narratives utilize the doctor figure to diagnose vampirism, and the narrative resolution depends on these figures and their powers of diagnosis and medical expertise. I argue that Stephenie Meyer takes the themes of these two narratives and adapts them to contemporary anxieties surrounding the perceived decrease in traditional relationships in her Twilight series. She includes a vampire doctor figure that does not diagnose other vampires, but instead medically assists Bella Swan through her pregnancy with a supernatural baby that forces Bella to transition from human to vampire and leave behind more liberal behaviors that prohibited her from ideal womanhood. Bella's marriage to Edward, a vampire, promotes conservative relationships and leads to a pregnancy that completes the creation of her heteronormative family that resolves her avoidance of traditional feminine behaviors.
Author: Kendra R. Parker Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498553184 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 189
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This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. Black female vampires continue to appear as important literary devices and revealing indicators of cultural attitudes and trends about African American women’s bodies. This book examines five novels written by four African American women writers to investigate what it means to represent African American womanhood through the lens of vampirism, interrogate how these representations connect to or stem from historical representations of African American women, and explore how representations of black female vampires in African American women’s literature simultaneously negate, reinforce, or dismantle stereotypes of African American women.
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