'Long before the publication of Bram Stokers Dracula, vampires have eagerly transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety, and nations. Such fervent violations of boundaries intensified during the final years of the twentieth century, and the early years of the current millennium have been known as 'the decade of the vampire'. Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires is a unique and timely collection that examines the past and present vampire narrative as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon. Through a series of important contributions by well-known scholars in the field, it illustrates how vampires have mapped and continues to map the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today. The collection is framed by a foreword by Elleke Boehmer and an afterword in the form of a poetic intervention by David Punter.' (Source: University of Wollongong website)
Contents include:
Foreword: Empire's vampires / Elleke Boehmer
Introduction: Transnational and postcolonial vampires / Johan Höglund and Tabish Khair
Postcolonial dread and the gothic: refashioning identity in Sheridan Lefanu's Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula / Robert A. Smart
Celebrating difference: the vampire in African-American and Caribbean Women's Writing / Gina Wisker
Canada, Quebec and David Cronenberg's Terrorist-Vampires / Justin D. Edwards
Citational Vampires: Transnational Techniques of Circulation in Irma Vep, Blood: The Last Vampire and Thirst / Ken Gelder
The Man-Eating Tiger and the Vampire in South Asia / Tabish Khair
Bilqis the Vampire Slayer: Sarwat Chadda's British Muslim Vampire Fiction / Claire Chambers and Sue Chaplin
Gothic Politics and the Mythology of the Vampire: Brendan Kennelly's Postcolonial Inversions in Cromwell: A Poem / Maria Beville
Militarizing the Vampire: Underworld and the Desire of the Military Entertainment Complex / Johan Höglund
Neo-Imperialism and the Apocalyptic Vampire Narrative: Justin Cronin's The Passage / Glennis Byron and Aspasia Stephanou
Afterword: Meditation on the Vampire / David Punter.
