The postmillennial vampire : power, sacrifice and simulation in True Blood, Twilight and other contemporary narratives /

This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred i...

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Main Author: Chaplin, Susan, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Series:Palgrave pivot.
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300 |a ix, 113 pages ;  |c 21 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- The vampire, the scapegoat and the sacred king -- From blood bonds to brand loyalties: Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls and Alan Ball's True Blood -- 'Nothing is real, everything is permitted': the vampire and the politics of jouissance -- Contagion, simulation, capital: from Tru Blood to New Blood -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 
520 |a This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred in contemporary culture. The figure of the vampire has captured the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent since the turn of the millennium. The philosopher René Girard associates the sacred with a communal violence that sacred ritual controls and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred fragment, the vampire comes to embody and enact this 'sacred violence' through complex blood bonds that relate the vampire to the human in wholly new ways in the new millennium. 
541 0 |a Given in memory of Candace Renee Benefiel by the University Writing Center, Texas A&M University, December 2017. 
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