Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Copyright page / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Dedication / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Dedication / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Acknowledgements / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Notes on Contributors / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Chapter 1 Queer Vampires, Queering the Vampire, and the Transgressive Undead / Amanda Jo Hobson and U. Melissa Anyiwo -- Chapter 2 Undyingly Queer / Jennifer Piper -- Chapter 3 Flipping the Script? / Kendra R. Parker -- Chapter 4 Gendered Fault Lines / Hannah Hansen and Jennifer Lawn -- Chapter 5 The Monstrous Mother as Obstacle to Herd Immunity and Queer Community in American Horror Story: Hotel / Leah Richards -- Chapter 6 “Love Will Have Its Sacrifices” / Alba María Fuentes Muñoz -- Chapter 7 “We’re Different to Others of Our Kind” / Eleanor Miller -- Chapter 8 Fragments of Queerness and the Post-Modern Family in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Brian M. Peters -- Chapter 9 The Irony That Kills Us / D. Stachowiak -- Chapter 10 Escaping Capitalism and Toxic Masculinity through Vampiric Transformations in Vampire’s Kiss (1988) and Daybreakers (2009) / Mary Beth McAndrews -- Chapter 11 To Be Young and a Man / Billy Tringali -- Chapter 12 The Argenti Beast / Maurice Moore -- Chapter 13 Queering the Classroom / U. Melissa Anyiwo and Amanda Jo Hobson.

Queering the Vampire Narrative offers classroom-ready original essays that continue our explorations of vampires as representations of the cultural Other, which builds on the work of our previous texts. The editors argue, ultimately, the vampire is a queer icon, infinitely blurring the boundaries of identity and cultural norms and queering even the most seemingly stable notions, such as life, death, humanity, and monstrosity. The Vampire is the undead monarch of subtextual articulations of Otherness, especially queer behaviors and desires, offering explorations of the AIDS epidemic, the destabilization of ideas of fixed and stable sexuality, the search for community and chosen family, and the issues of individual and generational trauma. In current fictions, vampires are coming out of the coffin and the closet, identifying as openly queer and often created by queer writers, artists, and directors and bringing the subtext to the surface of the narrative. This volume seeks to create a dialogue about the impact and importance of the vampire on queer identity and queer theory and to answer the questions of why the vampire is such a compelling queer icon and what visions of vampires articulate about our ideas surrounding issues of sexuality, sexual orientation, sexual behaviors, and desires.

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