Religion and Identity in the Post-9/11 Vampire God Is (Un)Dead /

• Main Author: Wilkins, Christina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Study and teaching.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; Religion and sociology.; Film genres.; American Culture.; Contemporary Literature.; Religion and Society.; Genre.

This book offers a unique argument for the emergence of a post-9/11 vampire that showcases changing perspectives on identity and religion in American culture, offering a look at how cultural narratives can be used to work through trauma. Cultural narratives have long played a valuable role in mediat...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Comparing Influence: Religion and Authority across the Transatlantic
• 3. 'Muslim Buffy with a Dick': Post-9/11 Interpretations of Fundamentalism in True Blood
• 4. Fear, Infection and the Aftermath: Del Toro's The Strain and Its Violent Vampires.