Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World

By: Cait Coker (Editor), Donald E. Palumbo (Editor), III C. W. Sullivan (Editor)

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Paperback | 24 January 2020

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252 Pages

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The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire''s evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.

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"This collection offers many layers of what it means to be vampiric and brings a mixture of theories to the discussion; whether you are a student of race, feminism, gender, sexuality, history, hybridity, or nationalism, you will find something here to support your research... This book is both enjoyable and informative; the writing is professional, clear, and interesting. It is not every scholarly book which one can describe as fun and entertaining, but this was both."-Journal of Popular Culture

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