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The Things That Fly in the Night : Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora /

"The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag--an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night's darkest hours in or...

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Autor principal: Anatol, Giselle Liza, 1970- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: American Literatures Initiative
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Chapter 1: Conventional Versions: The Soucouyant Story in Folktales, Fiction, and Calypso -- Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Connections: European Vampire Stories and Configurations of the Demonic Black Woman -- Chapter 3: Draining Life Rather Than Giving It: Maternal Legacies -- Chapter 4: "Queering" the Norm: Vampirism and Women's Sexuality -- Chapter 5: Reconstructing a Nation of Strangers: Soucouyants in the Work of Tessa McWatt, David Chariandy, and Helen Oyeyemi -- Chapter 6: Shedding Skin and Sucking Blood: Playing with Notions of Racial Intransigence. 
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