Vampires as 'meaning machines' : signifying the monster through race and sexuality.
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Authors
Turner-Debs, Isabel
Issue Date
2017
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
Undergraduate research. , Undergraduate thesis.
Alternative Title
Vampires as 'meaning machines'.
Abstract
This thesis examines the complex imbrication of race and sexuality in the vampire figure during the course of its literary life. It examines traditional, nineteenth-century representations (Polidori's The Vampyre, Le Fanu's Carmilla, and Stoker's Dracula) of the vampire as monstrous because of its racial and sexual deviance as well as two twenty-first century reinterpretations of the vampire. The first of these is Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, which reproduces the vampire as the ideal romantic hero through his whiteness and heteronormativity. The second of these is Octavia Butler's Fledgling, which reappropriates the vampire as black and sexually queer in order to challenge the normative systems of white privilege and heteronormativity.
Description
iv, 96 leaves.
Includes bibliographical references: leaves 89-96.
Includes bibliographical references: leaves 89-96.
Citation
Publisher
Wheaton College (Norton, Mass.)