Kiki’s Reviews > The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora > Status Update
Kiki
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I prefer when the chapters are about novels. When short stories are the focus it comes across as numerous narratives oriented around a particular theme with shades of difference not distinct/impactful enough to warrant the exhaustive treatment. Useful for students I'm sure but I'm bored. The deep dives on a few novels result in more compelling critiques.
— Jan 13, 2025 02:58PM
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Kiki
is on page 184 of 313
Not this book reminding me why I don't like Fledgling. 🌚😟
— Jan 19, 2025 11:53AM
Kiki
is on page 115 of 313
...as Malchow notes..." one must remember that Jew, Asian, and Black shared a rhetorical opprobrium that although each possessed in the literature of prejudice uniquely repulsive elements, tied them together"... to date, Dracula scholars have not fully considered the implications of British imperial work in Africa and the Caribbean...
Exactly! This is what I thought when I read the novel for myself.
— Jan 07, 2025 03:53PM
Exactly! This is what I thought when I read the novel for myself.
Kiki
is on page 59 of 313
Anatol does her best to render de Lisser's White Witch of Rosehall as a text that "shifts away from conventional Eurocentric associations between blackness and evil and instead vilifies Whiteness". The reading doesn't make sense when what makes Annie Paul evil in the text is her proximity to Blackness–specifically Haiti and the Black "Baroness" who raised her. Weird elision.
— Jan 03, 2025 09:19AM
