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By Giselle Liza Anatol

The issues That Fly within the Night explores photos of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic people traditions and in modern fiction. Giselle Liza Anatol specializes in the determine of the soucouyant, or previous Hag—an elderly lady through day who sheds her pores and skin in the course of night’s darkest hours to be able to fly approximately her neighborhood and suck the blood of her unwitting sufferers. unlike the glitz, glamour, and seductiveness of traditional depictions of the eu vampire, the soucouyant triggers unease approximately outdated age and feminine strength. Tracing suitable folklore during the English- and French-speaking Caribbean, the U.S. Deep South, and elements of West Africa, Anatol indicates how stories of the nocturnal girl bloodsuckers not just entertain and inspire obedience in pre-adolescent listeners, but in addition paintings to instill specific values approximately women’s “proper” position and behaviors in society at large. 

Alongside conventional legends, Anatol considers the explosion of soucouyant and different vampire narratives between writers of Caribbean and African background who long ago two decades have rejected the demonic snapshot of the nature and used her in its place to induce for girl mobility, racial and cultural empowerment, and anti colonial resistance. Texts contain paintings via authors as different as Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, U.S. nationwide booklet Award winner Edwidge Danticat, and technology fiction/fantasy writers Octavia Butler and Nalo Hopkinson.

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