04288nam 22009615 450 991095481690332120240801010148.0978128386805112838680599781137272621113727262710.1057/9781137272621(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(Perlego)3485048(EXLCZ)99267000000030876120151125d2013 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTransnational and Postcolonial Vampires Dark Blood /edited by T. Khair1st ed. 2013.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2013.1 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781349444908 1349444901 9781137272614 1137272619 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.LiteraturePhilosophyCultureStudy and teachingLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiteratureAmericaLiteraturesOriental literatureLiterary TheoryCultural TheoryTwentieth-Century LiteratureWorld LiteratureNorth American LiteratureAsian LiteratureLiteraturePhilosophy.CultureStudy and teaching.Literature, ModernLiterature.AmericaLiteratures.Oriental literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Twentieth-Century Literature.World Literature.North American Literature.Asian Literature.398.45809.93375Khair Tabish705091Hoglund Johan Anders455102MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954816903321Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires4331105UNINA