TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patrycja Pichnicka-Trivedi
PY  - 2027
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2977-0718
TI  - Imperial Vampires
T2  - Twenty-First-Century Retrotopias, Performances and Fantasies of the Future
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1484411
N2  - Empires are of crucial relevance in today’s world, as old imperialisms are reenacted and new ones emerge. The Imperial Gothic genre, and vampires especially, are perfect tools for reading these social, cultural and political phenomena. This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the imperial and imperialist tropes in twenty-first-century vampire narratives as cultural expressions of the political. The author analyses a broad corpus of imperial vampire narratives from Britain, France, Poland, Russia and the USA, including global empires, ‘secondary empires’, and local/small nation imperialisms; ‘democratic’ empires and authoritarian ones; Western empires and not (fully) Western ones. It includes retrotopic imperial nostalgias, present performances and imperial future visions, as well as the analysis of potentially anti-imperial and anti-imperialist narratives.
KW  - Anti-Imperialism, Britain, Colonialism, Coloniality, Eastern Europe, Empire, France, Gothic Studies, Imperial Gothic, Imperialism, Poland, Popular Culture, Political Studies, Russia, USA, Vampire, Vampire Narrative
LA  - English
ER  -