The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction - New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative
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One of the first books to examine representations of black vampires exclusively, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction not only refutes the tacit assumption that there is a lack of quality African American vampire fiction worthy of study or reading but also proposes that the black vampires help to answer an important question: Is there more to being black than having a black body? As symbols of immortality, the black vampires in Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep, Brandon Massey's Dark Corner, Octavia Butler's Fledgling,and K. Murry Johnson's Image of Emeralds and Chocolate help to identify not only the notions of blackness that should be kept alive or resurrected in the African American community for the twenty-first century but also the notions of blackness that should die or remain dead.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780814214015 |
Publisher: | Ohio State University Press |
Imprint: | The Ohio State University Press |
Pub date: | 18 Jul 2019 |
DEWEY: | 813.5409375 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | x, 201 |
Weight: | 481g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 16mm |