Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011

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Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 is written by Kendra R. Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978782608 (ISBN 10) and 9781978782600 (ISBN 13).

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.