ISBN:
9783034309387
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (319 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Undead Memory
DDC:
398.21
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Vampires have never been as popular in Western culture as they are now: Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and their fans have secured the vampire's place in contemporary culture. Yet the role vampires play in how we remember our pasts and configure our futures has yet to be explored. The present volume fills this gap, addressing the many ways in which vampire narratives have been used to describe the tensions between memory and identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first part of the volume considers the use of the vampire to deal with rapid cultural change, both to
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Sir Christopher Frayling Foreword; Simon Bacon and Katarzyna Bronk Introduction; PART I Death and Becoming: How the Human Past Becomes the Vampire Future; Leo Ruickbie Memento (non)mori: Memory, Discourse and Transmission during the Eighteenth-Century Vam; Marius Crişan Vampire Narratives as Juggling with Romanian History: Dan Simmons's Children of the N; Naomi Segal André Gide, Nosferatu and the Hydraulics of Youth and Age; Hadas Elber-Aviram Constitutional Amnesia and Future Memory: Science Fiction's Posthuman Vampire
Description / Table of Contents:
PART II Vampiric Memorials: Place, Space and Objects of Undead MemoryKatharina Rein Archives of Horror: Carriers of Memory in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Enrique Ajuria Ibarra Vampire Echoes and Cannibal Rituals: Undead Memory, Monstrosity and Genre in J; Sorcha Ní Fhlainn "Old things, fine things": Of Vampires, Antique Dealers and Timelessness; PART III Memory Never Dies: Vampires as Human Memory and Trauma; Hannah Priest Pack versus Coven: Guardianship of Tribal Memory in Vampire versus Werewolf Narrativ
Description / Table of Contents:
Angela Tumini Death and the City: Repressed Memory and Unconscious Anxiety in Michael Almereyda's NaSimon Bacon The Inescapable Moment: The Vampire as Individual and Collective Trauma in Let Me In by ; Notes on Contributors ; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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