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Kendra R. Parker - Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011

She Bites Back

Av Kendra R. Parker

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Beskrivning
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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2020-08-11
  • Mått: 154 x 224 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 295 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 188
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781498553193
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Kendra R. Parkeris assistant professor of African American Literature in the Department of Literature at Georgia Southern University

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She Bites Back explores the ambiguous and contradictory nature of the vampire historically and as it appears in African American women’s fic­tion, particularly as these texts use the vampire to interrogate notions of black women’s sexuality, agency, and value in varied communities. . . Parker offers significant insight into the ways contemporary African American women writers reinvent possibilities for black women through evaluating and rejecting tired tropes, positing and practicing an ethics of care, and claiming the right to agency, power, and self-definition, but doing so not as a monolith but through inventive, imaginative diver­sity—not as an “age” but as a necessary, significant, and potentially trans­formative moment.

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