The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Giselle Liza AnatolSeries:Critical Caribbean StudiesPublish date:2015-02-16Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813565736ISBN-10:813565731UPC:9780813565736Book Category:Literary Criticism, ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Life Sciences, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:ZoologySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCVEG0MV9P
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol focuses on the figure of the soucouyant, or Old Hag--an aged woman by day who sheds her skin during night's darkest hours in order to fly about her community and suck the blood of her unwitting victims. In contrast to the glitz, glamour,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813565736ISBN-10:813565731UPC:9780813565736Book Category:Literary Criticism, ScienceBook Subcategory:Caribbean & Latin American, Life Sciences, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:ZoologySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SCVEG0MV9P
GISELLE LIZA ANATOL is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
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