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Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires

Dark Blood

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Editors:
  1. Tabish Khair

    1. Institute of Language, Literature and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
      JMI, Delhi, India
      Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

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  2. Johan Höglund

    1. Concurrences in Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University Centre, Sweden

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires

    • Johan Höglund, Tabish Khair
    Pages 1-9

  3. Postcolonial Dread and the Gothic: Refashioning Identity in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    • Robert A. Smart
    Pages 10-45

  4. Celebrating Difference and Community: The Vampire in African-American and Caribbean Women’s Writing

    • Gina Wisker
    Pages 46-66

  5. Canada, Quebec and David Cronenberg’s Terrorist-Vampires

    • Justin D. Edwards
    Pages 67-80

  6. Citational Vampires: Transnational Techniques of Circulation in Irma Vep, Blood: The Last Vampire and Thirst

    • Ken Gelder
    Pages 81-104

  7. The Man-Eating Tiger and the Vampire in South Asia

    • Tabish Khair
    Pages 105-120

  8. Postcolonial Vampires in the Indigenous Imagination: Philip McLaren and Drew Hayden Taylor

    • Maureen Clark
    Pages 121-137

  9. Bilqis the Vampire Slayer: Sarwat Chadda’s British Muslim Vampire Fiction

    • Claire Chambers, Sue Chaplin
    Pages 138-152

  10. Gothic Politics and the Mythology of the Vampire: Brendan Kennelly’s Postcolonial Inversions in Cromwell: A Poem

    • Maria Beville
    Pages 153-172

  11. Militarizing the Vampire: Underworld and the Desire of the Military Entertainment Complex

    • Johan Höglund
    Pages 173-188

  12. Neo-imperialism and the Apocalyptic Vampire Narrative: Justin Cronin’s The Passage

    • Glennis Byron, Aspasia Stephanou
    Pages 189-201

  13. Afterword: A Poem by David Punter

    • Tabish Khair, Johan Höglund
    Pages 202-211

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 212-227
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Language, Literature and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark

    Tabish Khair

  • JMI, Delhi, India

    Tabish Khair

  • Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

    Tabish Khair

  • Concurrences in Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University Centre, Sweden

    Johan Höglund

About the editors

MARIA BEVILLE Assistant Professor of English Literature and Media, Institute for Aesthetics and Communication, Aarhus University, Denmark ELLEKE 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, Australia JUSTIN D. EDWARDS Professor in the Department of English, University of Surrey, UK KEN GELDER Professor of English, University of Melbourne, Australia David Punter Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK ROBERT 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

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