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Author:
Parker, Kendra R., author.
Title:
Black female vampires in African American women's novels, 1977-2011 : she bites back / Kendra R. Parker.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xli, 145 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Vampires in literature.
African American women in literature.
African American women in literature.
American fiction.
American fiction--Women authors.
Vampires in literature.
1900-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (125-134) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the first bite -- "I'm not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking": the black female vampire figure in Octavia E. Butler's Mind of my mind -- Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda stories: black female vampire as a new American monomyth -- Intersectional disempowerment and know-your-place aggression: a vindication of the rights of Anita Hill in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling? -- "She's not turning. she's in flux": the ability/disability system in l.A. Banks's The bitten -- Rehabilitative logic: sex work, procreation, and vampires in Pearl Cleage's Just wanna testify -- Afterword: the final bite.
ISBN:
1498553176
9781498553179
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1048945640
LCCN:
2018043986
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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