LEADER 04288nam 22009615 450 001 9910954816903321 005 20240801010148.0 010 $a9781283868051 010 $a1283868059 010 $a9781137272621 010 $a1137272627 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137272621 035 $a(CKB)2670000000308761 035 $a(EBL)1094992 035 $a(OCoLC)819421473 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000784468 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12347536 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000784468 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10763589 035 $a(PQKB)10142326 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001661249 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16441623 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001661249 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14985101 035 $a(PQKB)11302887 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-27262-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1094992 035 $a(Perlego)3485048 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000308761 100 $a20151125d2013 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTransnational and Postcolonial Vampires $eDark Blood /$fedited by T. Khair 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781349444908 311 08$a1349444901 311 08$a9781137272614 311 08$a1137272619 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a7 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 330 $aThroughout 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. 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aOriental literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aCultural Theory 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 606 $aWorld Literature 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aAsian Literature 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aOriental literature. 615 14$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 615 24$aWorld Literature. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aAsian Literature. 676 $a398.45 676 $a809.93375 701 $aKhair$b Tabish$0705091 701 $aHoglund$b Johan Anders$0455102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954816903321 996 $aTransnational and Postcolonial Vampires$94331105 997 $aUNINA