Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires
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(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Foreword: Empire's Vampires; E.Boehmer Introduction: Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires; J.Höglund & T.Khair Postcolonial Dread and the Gothic: Refashioning Identity in Sheridan LeFanu's 'Carmilla' and Bram Stoker's Dracula; R.A.Smart Celebrating Difference: The Vampire in African-American and Caribbean Women's Writing; G.Wisker Canada, Quebec and David Cronenberg's Terrorist-Vampires; J.D.Edwards Citational Vampires: Transnational Techniques of Circulation in Irma Vep, Blood: The Last Vampire and Thirst; K.Gelder The Man-Eating Tiger and the Vampire in South Asia; T.Khair Postcolonial Vampires in the Indigenous Imagination: Philip McLaren and Drew Hayden Taylor; M.Clark Bilqis the Vampire Slayer: Sarwat Chadda's British Muslim Vampire Fiction; C.Chambers & S.Chaplin Gothic Politics and the Mythology of the Vampire: Brendan Kennelly's Postcolonial Inversions in Cromwell: A Poem; M.Beville Militarizing the Vampire: Underworld and the Desire of The Military Entertainment Complex; J.Höglund Neo-imperialism and the Apocalyptic Vampire Narrative: Justin Cronin's The Passage ; G.Byron & A.Stephanou Afterword: Meditation on the Vampire; D.Punter Selected Bibliography Index
Autoren-Porträt
MARIA BEVILLE Assistant Professor of English Literature and Media, Institute for Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, DenmarkELLEKE BOEHMER Professor of World Literature in English, Oxford University, UK GLENNIS BYRON Professor of English, University of Sterling, UK CLAIRE CHAMBERS Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK MAUREEN CLARK Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, AustraliaJUSTIN D. EDWARDS Professor in the Department of English, University of Surrey, UK KEN GELDER Professor of English, University of Melbourne, AustraliaDavid Punter Professor of English, University of Bristol, UKROBERT SMART Professor of English, Quinnipiac University, USA ASPASIA STEPHANOU Postdoctoral researcher, University of Stirling, UK GINA WISKER Professor of Higher Education & Contemporary Literature, Brighton University, UK
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2012, 2013., 227 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben:Höglund, Johan; Khair, T.
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137272619
- ISBN-13: 9781137272614
Sprache:
Englisch
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