Queering the Vampire Narrative
Published on 25. October 2023
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-90-04-68887-2 (ISBN)
Description
Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous texts. The editors argue, ultimately, the vampire is a queer icon, infinitely blurring the boundaries of identity and cultural norms and queering even the most seemingly stable notions, such as life, death, humanity, and monstrosity. The Vampire is the undead monarch of subtextual articulations of Otherness, especially queer behaviors and desires, offering explorations of the AIDS epidemic, the destabilization of ideas of fixed and stable sexuality, the search for community and chosen family, and the issues of individual and generational trauma. In current fictions, vampires are coming out of the coffin and the closet, identifying as openly queer and often created by queer writers, artists, and directors and bringing the subtext to the surface of the narrative. This volume seeks to create a dialogue about the impact and importance of the vampire on queer identity and queer theory and to answer the questions of why the vampire is such a compelling queer icon and what visions of vampires articulate about our ideas surrounding issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and desires.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-68887-2 (9789004688872)
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Persons
Amanda Jo Hobson, Ph.D., is Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She has published on gender and sexuality within vampire narratives and is the co-editor of Gender in the Vampire Narrative (2016).
U. Melissa Anyiwo is Associate Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at The University of Scranton, PA. She has edited multiple texts on the vampire as metaphor, including Gender Warriors (2018).
U. Melissa Anyiwo is Associate Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at The University of Scranton, PA. She has edited multiple texts on the vampire as metaphor, including Gender Warriors (2018).
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Queer Vampires, Queering the Vampire, and the Transgressive Undead: An Introduction
?Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo
2 Undyingly Queer: Cultural Context, Found Family, and the Eternal Unavoidable Queerness of the Vampire
?Jennifer Piper
3 Flipping the Script? Queering the Insider/Outsider Status of the Black Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk's Vamp (1986)
?Kendra R. Parker
4 Gendered Fault Lines: Reproductive Politics in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls
?Hannah Hansen and Jennifer Lawn
5 The Monstrous Mother as Obstacle to Herd Immunity and Queer Community in American Horror Story: Hotel
?Leah Richards
6 "Love Will Have Its Sacrifices": The Evolution of Lesbian Representation in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Its Adaptations
?Alba Maria Fuentes Munoz
7 "We're Different to Others of Our Kind": Meyer's Vampires and the Complications of Heteronormativity
?Eleanor Miller
8 Fragments of Queerness and the Post-Modern: Family in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
?Brian M. Peters
9 The Irony That Kills Us: The (Un)life and Death of Possibility in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
?D. Stachowiak
10 Escaping Capitalism and Toxic Masculinity through Vampiric Transformations in Vampire's Kiss (1988) and Daybreakers (2009)
?Mary Beth McAndrews
11 To Be Young and a Man: Age and Emasculation in Tony Scott's The Hunger
?Billy Tringali
12 The Argenti Beast
?Maurice Moore
13 Queering the Classroom
?U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson
Notes on Contributors
1 Queer Vampires, Queering the Vampire, and the Transgressive Undead: An Introduction
?Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo
2 Undyingly Queer: Cultural Context, Found Family, and the Eternal Unavoidable Queerness of the Vampire
?Jennifer Piper
3 Flipping the Script? Queering the Insider/Outsider Status of the Black Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk's Vamp (1986)
?Kendra R. Parker
4 Gendered Fault Lines: Reproductive Politics in Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls
?Hannah Hansen and Jennifer Lawn
5 The Monstrous Mother as Obstacle to Herd Immunity and Queer Community in American Horror Story: Hotel
?Leah Richards
6 "Love Will Have Its Sacrifices": The Evolution of Lesbian Representation in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and Its Adaptations
?Alba Maria Fuentes Munoz
7 "We're Different to Others of Our Kind": Meyer's Vampires and the Complications of Heteronormativity
?Eleanor Miller
8 Fragments of Queerness and the Post-Modern: Family in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
?Brian M. Peters
9 The Irony That Kills Us: The (Un)life and Death of Possibility in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
?D. Stachowiak
10 Escaping Capitalism and Toxic Masculinity through Vampiric Transformations in Vampire's Kiss (1988) and Daybreakers (2009)
?Mary Beth McAndrews
11 To Be Young and a Man: Age and Emasculation in Tony Scott's The Hunger
?Billy Tringali
12 The Argenti Beast
?Maurice Moore
13 Queering the Classroom
?U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson