Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977-2011 (eBook)

She Bites Back

Kendra R. Parker (Autor)

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2018
188 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5318-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood.

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This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. Black female vampires continue to appear as important literary devices and revealing indicators of cultural attitudes and trends about African American women's bodies. This book examines five novels written by four African American women writers to investigate what it means to represent African American womanhood through the lens of vampirism, interrogate how these representations connect to or stem from historical representations of African American women, and explore how representations of black female vampires in African American women's literature simultaneously negate, reinforce, or dismantle stereotypes of African American women.

Autor

Kendra R. Parker is assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Hope College.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The First Bite1. “I’m not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking.” The Black Female Vampire Figure in Octavia E. Butler’s Mind of My Mind2. Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories: Black Female Vampire as a New American Monomyth3. Intersectional Disempowerment and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Vindication of the Rights of Anita Hill in Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling?4. “She’s not turning. She’s in flux”: The Ability/Disability System in L.A. Banks’s The Bitten5. Rehabilitative Logic: Sex Work, Procreation, and Vampires in Pearl Cleage’s Just Wanna TestifyAfterword: The Final BiteBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African American literature • African American women • afrofuturism • Fantasy • Intersectionality • Jewelle Gomez • Literary criticism • Octavia Butler • pearl cleage • popular culture • Science Fiction • vampires • Women authors • Women's literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5318-4 / 1498553184
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5318-6 / 9781498553186