04638nam 22008535 450 991078643320332120180829121501.01-283-86805-91-137-27262-710.1057/9781137272621(CKB)2670000000308761(EBL)1094992(OCoLC)819421473(SSID)ssj0000784468(PQKBManifestationID)12347536(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784468(PQKBWorkID)10763589(PQKB)10142326(SSID)ssj0001661249(PQKBManifestationID)16441623(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001661249(PQKBWorkID)14985101(PQKB)11302887(DE-He213)978-1-137-27262-1(MiAaPQ)EBC1094992(EXLCZ)99267000000030876120151125d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransnational and Postcolonial Vampires[electronic resource] Dark Blood /edited by Tabish Khair, Johan HöglundLondon :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-44490-1 1-137-27261-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Asia7 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; IndexThroughout 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.Literature-PhilosophyCulture-Study and teachingLiterature, Modern-20th centuryLiterature   America-LiteraturesOriental literatureLiterary Theoryhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411130Twentieth-Century Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/822000Postcolonial/World Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/838000North American Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/834000Asian Literaturehttp://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/831000Literature-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.398.45809.93375Khair Tabishedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtHöglund Johanedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910786433203321Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires3852476UNINA