Undead Memory
Vampires and Human Memory in Popular Culture
Vampires have never been as popular in Western culture as they are now: Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and their fans have secured the vampire's place in contemporary culture. Yet the role vampires play in how we remember our pasts and configure our futures has yet to be explored. The present volume fills this gap, addressing the many ways in which vampire narratives have been used to describe the tensions between memory and identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first part of the volume considers the use of the vampire to deal with rapid cultural change, both to remember the past and to imagine possible futures.…
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- ISBN: 978-3-0353-0553-1
- EAN: 9783035305531
- Produktnummer: 25671455
- Verlag: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 13'352 KB
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