The Postmillennial Vampire
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The Postmillennial Vampire

Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives

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The Postmillennial Vampire

Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319483726
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. The Postmillennial Vampire
  2. 1 Introduction
  3. 2 The Vampire, the Scapegoat and the Sacred King
  4. 3 From Blood Bonds to Brand Loyalties: Poppy Z. Brite’s Lost Souls and Alan Ball’s True Blood
  5. 4 ‘Nothing is Real, Everything is Permitted’: The Vampire and the Politics of Jouissance
  6. 5 Contagion, Simulation, Capital: From Tru Blood to New Blood
  7. 6 Conclusion
  8. Bibliography
  9. Index