Giselle Liza Anatol

The Things That Fly in the Night

Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565736
• ISBN-10: 0813565731
• Artikelnr.: 40845840

Autorenporträt

Giselle Liza Anatol

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Conventional Versions: The Soucouyant Story in Folktales,
Fiction, and Calypso
Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Connections: European Vampire Stories and
Configurations of the Demonic Black Woman
Chapter 3: Draining Life Rather Than Giving It: Maternal Legacies
Chapter 4: “Queering” the Norm: Vampirism and Women’s Sexuality
Chapter 5: Reconstructing a Nation of Strangers: Soucouyants in the Work of
Tessa McWatt, David Chariandy, and Helen Oyeyemi
Chapter 6: Shedding Skin and Sucking Blood: Playing with Notions of Racial
Intransigence