Things That Fly in the Night - Female Vampires in Literature of Circum Caribbean African Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor GISELLE LIZA ANATOL is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.  Klappentext The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and other vampire narratives among writers of Caribbean and African heritage who in the past twenty years have rejected the demonic image of the character and used her instead to urge for female mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsChapter 1: Conventional Versions: The Soucouyant Story in Folktales, Fiction, and CalypsoChapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Connections: European Vampire Stories and Configurations of the Demonic Black WomanChapter 3: Draining Life Rather Than Giving It: Maternal LegaciesChapter 4: “Queering” the Norm: Vampirism and Women’s SexualityChapter 5: Reconstructing a Nation of Strangers: Soucouyants in the Work of Tessa McWatt, David Chariandy, and Helen OyeyemiChapter 6: Shedding Skin and Sucking Blood: Playing with Notions of Racial Intransigence

Product details

• Authors: Giselle Liza Anatol
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.02.2015
• EAN: 9780813565736
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6573-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Critical Caribbean Studies; Critical Caribbean Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies