The things that fly in the night : female vampires in literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African diaspora

The things that fly in the night : female vampires in literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African diaspora /

"The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag--an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night's darkest hours in or...

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Main Author: Anatol, Giselle Liza, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Critical Caribbean studies.
Subjects:
Caribbean literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Vampires in literature.
Tales > Caribbean Area.
African diaspora.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Conventional Versions: The Soucouyant Story in Folktales, Fiction, and Calypso
  • Chapter 2: Nineteenth-Century Connections: European Vampire Stories and Configurations of the Demonic Black Woman
  • Chapter 3: Draining Life Rather Than Giving It: Maternal Legacies
  • Chapter 4: "Queering" the Norm: Vampirism and Women's Sexuality
  • Chapter 5: Reconstructing a Nation of Strangers: Soucouyants in the Work of Tessa McWatt, David Chariandy, and Helen Oyeyemi
  • Chapter 6: Shedding Skin and Sucking Blood: Playing with Notions of Racial Intransigence.

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