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Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011: She Bites Back PDF
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Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977–2011 She Bites Back Kendra R. Parker LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AnimprintofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 6TinworthStreet,LondonSE115AL,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2019byTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Parker,KendraR.,author. Title:BlackfemalevampiresinAfricanAmericanwomen’snovels,1977–2011:shebitesback/ KendraR.Parker Description:Lanham:LexingtonBooks,2018.|Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. Identifiers:LCCN2018043986(print)|LCCN2018047332(ebook)|ISBN9781498553186(Elec- tronic)|ISBN9781498553179(cloth:alk.paper) Subjects:LCSH:Americanfiction--Womenauthors--Historyandcriticism.|Americanfiction--20th century--Historyandcriticism.|Americanfiction--21stcentury--Historyandcriticismm.|Vam- piresinliterature.|AfricanAmericanwomeninliterature. Classification:LCCPS374.V35(ebook)|LCCPS374.V35P372018(print)|DDC813.5409--dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018043986 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ForSarahHarvin,AreyannaMalbrough, CurissaSutherland-Smith,andMarianaThomas Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction:TheFirstBite xiii 1 “I’mnotthevampireheis;Igiveinreturnformytaking.”: TheBlackFemaleVampireFigureinOctaviaE.Butler’s MindofMyMind 1 2 JewelleGomez’sTheGildaStories:BlackFemaleVampireas aNewAmericanMonomyth 23 3 IntersectionalDisempowermentandKnow-Your-Place Aggression:AVindicationoftheRightsofAnitaHillin OctaviaE.Butler’sFledgling? 47 4 “She’snotturning.She’sinflux”:TheAbility/Disability SysteminL.A.Banks’sTheBitten 65 5 RehabilitativeLogic:SexWork,Procreation,andVampires inPearlCleage’sJustWannaTestify 91 Afterword:TheFinalBite 113 Bibliography 125 Index 135 AbouttheAuthor 145 vii