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Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900 - Blood Relations (Paperback)
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Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900 - Blood Relations (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that
subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire
fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural
phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author.
Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore
worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most
canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories,
Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between
various strategies of characterization or blend different ones
together. How much will they draw on conventions of the
transnational corpus? Are their vampires to be local or foreign;
alluring or repulsive; pitiable or pure evil, for instance?
Decisions like these determine the messages texts carry and, when
made by Spanish authors, may reveal aspects of their culture with
striking candidness, perhaps because the fantasy premise seems to
give the false sense of security that this is harmless escapism
and, since metaphorical meaning is implicit, it is open to argument
and, if necessary, denial. Part I gives a chronological
text-by-text appreciation of all the texts included in this volume,
many of them little known even to Hispanists and few if any to
non-Spanish Gothic scholars. It also provides a plot summary and
brief background on the author of each. These entries are
free-standing and designed to be consulted for reference or read
together to give a sense of the evolution of the paradigm since
1900. Part II considers the corpus comparatively, first with regard
to its relationship to folklore and religion and then contagion and
transmission. Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations
will be of interest to Anglophone Gothic scholars who want to
develop their knowledge of the Spanish dimension of the mode and to
Hispanists who want to look at some canonical texts and authors
from a new perspective but also gain an awareness of some
interesting and decidedly non-canonical material.
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