'Something black and of the night'

Vampirism, Monstrosity, and Negotiations of Race in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage78
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage94
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume27
dc.contributor.authorSchuller, Dorothea
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-23T15:08:13Z
dc.date.available2018-05-23T15:08:13Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractRichard Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954), about a lone survivor in a postapocalyptic world inhabited by modern vampires, is the first major vampire novel of the 20th century and a direct response to Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). While replacing the supernaturalism of Stoker’s Gothic horror with science fiction elements, Matheson’s text is similarly concernedwith issues of racial ‘otherness’ centering around the liminal figure of the vampire and exhibits the same preoccupation with clean, unclean or mixed blood. This essay discusses the complex relationship between vampire fiction and discourses of race and monstrosity by analysing I Am Legend and its 2007 screen adaptation, whose manipulations of the original plot produced a film expressive of American attitudes towards science and religion after 9/11.
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/322
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.journalInklings
dc.relation.journalaltJahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik
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dc.subject.ddcddc:800
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudies
dc.subject.fieldculturalstudies
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudies
dc.subject.fieldfilmstudies
dc.title'Something black and of the night'
dc.title.alternativeVampirism, Monstrosity, and Negotiations of Race in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend
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