Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires [electronic resource] : Dark Blood /
Khair, Tabish.editor.
Höglund, Johan.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.