Kendra R. Parker

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

She Bites Back

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: RLPG/Galleys
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 433g
• ISBN-13: 9781498553179
• ISBN-10: 1498553176
• Artikelnr.: 53773695

Autorenporträt

By Kendra R. Parker

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: The First Bite 1. "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 Mind 2. Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories: Black
Female Vampire as a New American Monomyth 3. 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 Bitten 5. Rehabilitative
Logic: Sex Work, Procreation, and Vampires in Pearl Cleage's Just Wanna
Testify Afterword: The Final Bite Bibliography