The paradox of blackness in African American vampire fiction /

This book examines the link between blackness and immortality in the fledgling genre of African American vampire fiction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jenkins, Rafiki, 1967- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Series:	New suns: race, gender, and sexuality in the speculative.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. Vampires in literature. Blacks > Race identity. Racism in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The vampire's blackness
Blackness, freedom, and the staying-alive vampire in The Gilda stories
Antizealot atheism and the all-American bourgeois Negro in My soul to keep
African American manhood and the masculine Africa narrative in Dark corner
Human blackness, transhuman blackness, and the black body in Fledgling
Black Church corporatism and the black gay vampire in Image of emeralds and chocolate
Conclusion: Post-black, new black, and the immortality of blackness.