Queering The Vampire Narrative
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Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2023-10-20 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9004688889 |
Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous texts. The editors argue, ultimately, the vampire is a queer icon, infinitely blurring the boundaries of identity and cultural norms and queering even the most seemingly stable notions, such as life, death, humanity, and monstrosity. The Vampire is the undead monarch of subtextual articulations of Otherness, especially queer behaviors and desires, offering explorations of the AIDS epidemic, the destabilization of ideas of fixed and stable sexuality, the search for community and chosen family, and the issues of individual and generational trauma. In current fictions, vampires are coming out of the coffin and the closet, identifying as openly queer and often created by queer writers, artists, and directors and bringing the subtext to the surface of the narrative. This volume seeks to create a dialogue about the impact and importance of the vampire on queer identity and queer theory and to answer the questions of why the vampire is such a compelling queer icon and what visions of vampires articulate about our ideas surrounding issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and desires.
Author | : Isaac Fellman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0143136917 |
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel. When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease." Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.
Author | : Karla Nikole |
Publisher | : Karla Nikole Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-08-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781735589800 |
Queer and gay vampire romance series set in modern-day society (England, Italy and Japan). Slow burn, multi-cultural friends-to-lovers romance where love is love, no questions asked. Mature content.
Author | : Jewelle Gomez |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781784878610 |
'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian 'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah Waters In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things... Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda. Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, gold-rush bars, Black women's suffrage groups, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. Her body, powerful against the passage of time, will know both beauty and horror through the women she desires and the blood she craves. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?
Author | : Indra Das |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 110196751X |
"A dreamlike novel about a young historian and a persuasive and beguiling stranger coming together in modern-day Kolkata, India to transcribe an ancient journal. A collection of paper, parchment, and skins, the journal tells of bloodshed, kidnapping, magic and shapeshifting, set against the harsh landscapes of the 17th-Century Mughal Empire. It reveals the story of hunters and prey, lovers and the beloved, and, in the end, the choice to be transformed, or be quarry"--
Author | : Madeline McGrane |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2021-07-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062954369 |
*Named a Rainbow Book List Title* A spooky and funny graphic novel perfect for fans of The Witch Boy and Real Friends Dragoslava is a vampire kid. It has its perks, but sometimes being stuck as a kid forever can be a pain in the neck. And that’s not even the worst part. A few centuries ago, Drago was cursed by a witch. If they don’t complete every task she sets, they will be turned into worms. When the witch wants a spellbook from Baneberry Falls, Drago sets off with their immortal friends. But mysteries await in this sleepy Midwestern town, and Drago must figure out if the keepers of the spellbook have a hidden agenda, like everyone else they’ve ever known. One thing’s for sure: after this accursed mission, Drago’s immortal life will never be the same again!
Author | : John Ajvide Lindqvist |
Publisher | : riverrun |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-09-26 |
Genre | : Horror tales, Swedish |
ISBN | : 9780857385512 |
The follow-up collection to the international vampire bestseller Let the Right One In Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist's rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.
Author | : Julia Round |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1496824474 |
Winner of the 2019 Broken Frontier Award for Best Book on Comics Today fans still remember and love the British girls’ comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural history and detailed discussion of the comic, preserving both the inception and development of this important publication as well as its stories. Misty ran for 101 issues as a stand-alone publication between 1978 and 1980 and then four more years as part of Tammy. It was a hugely successful anthology comic containing one-shot and serialized stories of supernatural horror and fantasy aimed at girls and young women and featuring work by writers and artists who dominated British comics such as Pat Mills, Malcolm Shaw, and John Armstrong, as well as celebrated European artists. To this day, Misty remains notable for its daring and sophisticated stories, strong female characters, innovative page layouts, and big visuals. In the first book on this topic, Round closely analyzes Misty’s content, including its creation and production, its cultural and historical context, key influences, and the comic itself. Largely based on Round’s own archival research, the study also draws on interviews with many of the key creators involved in this comic, including Pat Mills, Wilf Prigmore, and its art editorial team Jack Cunningham and Ted Andrews, who have never previously spoken about their work. Richly illustrated with previously unpublished photos, scripts, and letters, this book uses Misty as a lens to explore the use of Gothic themes and symbols in girls’ comics and other media. It surveys existing work on childhood and Gothic and offers a working definition of Gothic for Girls, a subgenre which challenges and instructs readers in a number of ways.
Author | : Ashley Oliver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Vampires |
ISBN | : |
The United States has been taken over by vampires. Numerous films, television series, and romance novels are being rapidly consumed by Americans of age groups ranging form pre-teen to adult. Interestingly, the most prominent vampire stories of the early twenty-first century have all centered on one key narrative convention: the heterosexual romance between a human female heroine and her vampire boyfriend. Although the vampire continues to occupy its historical status as a sexual "other," in modern texts it is not a villain but an ideal. We no longer kill our vampires but instead place them on a pedestal. In a culture of increasingly polarized sexual politics where a growing queer rights movement is opposed by a significant rise in religious fundamentalism, where a feminist movement for insurance coverage for birth control is met with increasing limitations on abortion rights, the vampire has become a pop culture weapon for both sides. Through these vampire narratives, certain dissatisfactions with dominant society's construction of gender and sexuality are mitigated, and a fantasy vampire emerges that embodies the idealized views of these subjects. However, the different sides of this sexual war disagree on what is represented by "dominant society," and as such their vampires embody vastly different cultural values. Furthermore, even though some vampires may appear to offer a critical breaking down of gender constructions or normative sexuality, they are unable to do both and thus their transgression is mitigated by facets of normativity. Although our culture embraces the vampire rather than killing it, its transgression remains bound (to varying degrees) by conventional notions of gender and sexuality.
Author | : Zoraida Córdova |
Publisher | : Imprint |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250230004 |
Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction’s leading voices fill this bestselling anthology—including V.E. Schwab's First Kill, now a major Netflix adaptation! "Boundary-pushing... Stories that stake a new claim on old tropes." —Publishers Weekly, starred review In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out—and going out for their first kill—and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire—and a revolution on the page. Vampires Never Get Old includes stories by authors both bestselling and acclaimed, including Samira Ahmed, Dhonielle Clayton, Zoraida Córdova and Natalie C. Parker, Tessa Gratton, Heidi Heilig, Julie Murphy, Mark Oshiro, Rebecca Roanhorse, Laura Ruby, Victoria “V. E.” Schwab, and Kayla Whaley. An Imprint Book "Vampire fans, sink your teeth into this satisfying collection." —Kirkus Reviews