Abstract

This article explores the trend in contemporary vampire media to highlight racially-charged issues, demonstrating a consciousness of the way the vampire has been used in conjunction with racial stigmatisation. While the traditional figure of the vampire spoke strongly to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century white American fears of miscegenation, I argue that some contemporary vampire narratives, such as Blade (1998), Underworld (2003), and True Blood (2008-), rewrite the figure in order to question and/or undo the link between ‘monstrosity' and racial otherness. Central to this task is not only the repositioning and characterisation of the vampire, but also considering that the female body was once perceived as the locus for racial purity that of the heroine.

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