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Book Review: The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins. Ohio State University Press, 2019
Ist Teil von
Foundation, 2020, Vol.49 (136), p.125-127
Ort / Verlag
Dagenham: Science Fiction Foundation
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 2019, 201pp, £26.95) Reviewed by Sara Wenger (Virginia Tech University) In this book, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins exhumes a notable undead figure: the black vampire. In response, Jenkins dedicates each chapter to a different African American vampire novel, including Tananarive Due's My Soul to Keep (1997), Brandon Massey's Dark Corner (2004) and K. Murry Johnson's Image of Emeralds and Chocolate (2012). [...]dedicated sf readers might recognize the series in which this book is published - New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative, edited by Susana M. Morris and Kinitra D. Brooks.