The things that fly in the night : female vampires in literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African diaspora /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Anatol, Giselle Liza, 1970- (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Collection:Critical Caribbean studies.
Sujets:
Schwarze, ...
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Vampires in literature.
Tales > Caribbean Area.
African diaspora.
Littérature antillaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Vampires dans la littérature.
Contes > Caraïbes (Région)
Africains > Pays étrangers.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Caribbean literature.
Literature > Black authors.
Tales.
Literatur
Volkserzählung
Vampir
Caribbean Area.
Karibik
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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