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Vampires, Anxieties, and Dreams: Race and Sex in the Contemporary United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Shannon Winnubst
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Abstract

Drawing on several feminist and anti-racist theorists, 1 use the trope of the vampire to unravel how whiteness, maleness, and heterosexuality feed on the same set of disavowals—of the body, of the Other, of fluidity, of dependency itself. I then turn tojewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories (1991) for a counternarrative that, along with Donna Harauiay's reading of vampires (1997), retools concepts of kinship and self that undergird racism, sexism, and heterosexism in contemporary U.S. culture.

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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall 2003 , pp. 1 - 20
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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