The paradox of blackness in African American vampire fiction /

"This book examines the link between blackness and immortality in the fledgling genre of African American vampire fiction"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Rafiki, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2019.
Colección:New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
Temas:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Vampires in literature.
Black people > Race identity.
Racism in literature.
Roman américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Vampires dans la littérature.
Racisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
American fiction > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The vampire's blackness
  • Blackness, freedom, and the staying-alive vampire in the Gilda stories
  • Antizealot atheism and the all-American bourgeois Negro in My soul to keep
  • African American manhood and the masculine Africa narrative in Dark corner
  • Human blackness, transhuman blackness, and the black body in Fledgling
  • Black Church corporatism and the black gay vampire in Image of emeralds and chocolate
  • Conclusion: Post-black, new black, and the immortality of blackness.

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