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The Global Vampire
Essays on the Undead in Popular Culture Around the World
Edited by Cait Coker
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The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire’s evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.
About the Author:
Cait Coker is associate professor and curator of rare books and manuscripts at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on genre history, women’s writing, and the history of women in publishing.
Press Reviews:
• Lord Ruthven Award — International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
• "This collection offers many layers of what it means to be vampiric and brings a mixture of theories to the discussion; whether you are a student of race, feminism, gender, sexuality, history, hybridity, or nationalism, you will find something here to support your research… This book is both enjoyable and informative; the writing is professional, clear, and interesting. It is not every scholarly book which one can describe as fun and entertaining, but this was both."—Journal of Popular Culture
See the publisher website: McFarland & Co
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