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Transnational and postcolonial vampires : dark blood /
Long before the publication of Bram Stokers "Dracula", vampires have eagerly transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety, and nations. Such fervent violations of boundaries intensified during the final years of the twentieth century, and the early years of the current millen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: Empire's vampires / Elleke Boehmer
- Introduction: Transnational and postcolonial vampires / Johan Höglund and Tabish Khair
- Postcolonial dread and the gothic: refashioning identity in Sheridan Lefanu's Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula / Robert A. Smart
- Celebrating difference: the vampire in African-American and Caribbean women's writing / Gina Wisker
- Canada, Quebec and David Cronenberg's terrorist-vampires / Justin D. Edwards
- Citational vampires: transnational techniques of circulation in Irma Vep, Blood: the last vampire and thirst / Ken Gelder
- The man-eating tiger and the vampire in South Asia / Tabish Khair
- Postcolonial vampires in the Indigenous imagination: Philip McLaren and Drew Hayden Taylor / Maureen Clark
- Bilqis the vampire slayer: Sarwat Chadda's British Muslim vampire fiction / Claire Chambers and Sue Chaplin
- Gothic politics and the mythology of the vampire: Brendan Kennelly's postcolonial inversions in Cromwell: a poem / Maria Beville
- Militarizing the vampire: Underworld and the desire of the military entertainment complex / Johan Höglund
- Neo-imperialism and the apocalyptic vampire narrative: Justin Cronin's The passage / Glennis Byron and Aspasia Stephanou
- Afterword: Meditation on the vampire / David Punter.