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Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977-2011

She Bites Back
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This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. Black female vampires continue to appear as important literary devices and revealing indicators of cultural attitudes and trends about African American women's bodies. This book examines five novels written by four African American women writers to investigate what it means to represent African American womanhood through the lens of vampirism, interrogate how these representations connect to or stem from historical representations of African American women, and explore how representations of black female vampires in African American women's literature simultaneously negate, reinforce, or dismantle stereotypes of African American women.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The First Bite 1. "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 2. Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories: Black Female Vampire as a New American Monomyth 3. Intersectional Disempowerment and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Vindication of the Rights of Anita Hill in Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling? 4. "She's not turning. She's in flux": The Ability/Disability System in L.A. Banks's The Bitten 5. Rehabilitative Logic: Sex Work, Procreation, and Vampires in Pearl Cleage's Just Wanna Testify Afterword: The Final Bite Bibliography
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