Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires : Dark Blood

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Edited by Tabish Khair and Johan Höglund

Palgrave Macmillan

Includes bibliographical references and index

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
Postcolonial vampires in the indigenous imagination: Philip McLaren and Drew Hayden Taylor / Maureen Clark
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