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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786433203321

Titolo

Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires [[electronic resource] ] : Dark Blood / / edited by Tabish Khair, Johan Höglund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-86805-9

1-137-27262-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

398.45

809.93375

Soggetti

Literature-Philosophy

Culture-Study and teaching

Literature, Modern-20th century

Literature   

America-Literatures

Oriental literature

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Twentieth-Century Literature

Postcolonial/World Literature

North American Literature

Asian Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword: Empire's Vampires; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires; 2 Postcolonial Dread and the Gothic: Refashioning Identity in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula; 3 Celebrating Difference and Community: The Vampire in African-American and Caribbean Women's Writing; 4 Canada, Quebec and David Cronenberg's Terrorist-Vampires; 5 Citational Vampires: Transnational Techniques of Circulation in Irma Vep, Blood: The Last Vampire and Thirst; 6 The



Man-Eating Tiger and the Vampire in South Asia

7 Postcolonial Vampires in the Indigenous Imagination: Philip McLaren and Drew Hayden Taylor8 Bilqis the Vampire Slayer: Sarwat Chadda's British Muslim Vampire Fiction; 9 Gothic Politics and the Mythology of the Vampire: Brendan Kennelly's Postcolonial Inversions in Cromwell: A Poem; 10 Militarizing the Vampire: Underworld and the Desire of the Military Entertainment Complex; 11 Neo-imperialism and the Apocalyptic Vampire Narrative: Justin Cronin's The Passage; 12 Afterword: A Poem by David Punter; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.