Race in the Vampire Narrative

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-94-6300-290-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

Reihe: Teaching Race and Ethnicity

Race in the Vampire Narrative unpacks the vampire through a collection of classroom ready original essays that explicitly connect this archetypal outsider to studies in race, ethnicity, and identity. Through essays about the first recorded vampire craze, television shows True Blood, and Being Human, movies like Blade: Trinity and Underworld, to the presentation of vampires of colour in romance novels, graphic novels, on stage and beyond, this text will open doorways to discussions about Otherness in any setting, serving as an alternative way to explore marginality through a framework that welcomes all students into the conversation.

Vampires began as terrors, nightmares, the most horrifying of creatures; now they are sparkly antiheroes more likely to kill your dog than drink you to death; commodified, absorbed, and defanged. Race in the Vampire Narrative demonstrates that the vampire serves as a core metaphor for the constructions of race, and the ways in which we identify, manufacture, and commodify marginalized groups. By drawing together disparate discussions of non-white vampires in popular culture, the collection illustrates the ways in which vampires can be used to explicitly help students understand ethnicity in the modern world making this the perfect companion text to any course from First Year Studies, Sociology, History, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, Criminal Justice, and so much more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Anyiwo, U. Melissa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Melissa Anyiwo is a Professor of Politics & History and Coordinator of African American Studies at Curry College in Massachusetts. A transplanted Nigerian-British citizen with background in race, diversity, and visual archetypes, she regularly writes and presents on vampires and their connection to racial stereotypes including Too Dark for the Moonlight: The Invisibility of the Black Vampire. In addition her published work includes the edited collection Buffy Conquers the Academy (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013); and “Using Vampires to Explore Diversity and Alienation in a College Classroom” in The Vampire Goes to College: Essays on Teaching with the Undead (McFarland and Company Inc. 2013).